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emergency arise, he says, he has a building 97 feet by 30 feet at the
Mill and Forge Works, Millwall Iron Works.
"After an interview I had with Mr. Harston, he writes, saying,
that 'We shall be prepared to consider the question of letting a part
or the whole of the Clippingdale Cottage Row Estate, two and a
quarter acres, and the half acre Rifle Street property, as sites for
Cholera Hospitals when your Board are prepared to go into the
matter, providing that we have not in the meantime otherwise dealt
with them.' He goes on to say, 'but if the object of your Board is
to obtain and reserve an option to claim the right to their use, we are
willing now to consider the terms on which our clients should rent
such option. This is the course being adopted by other local Boards.
As an instance of one case: The Board of Works for the Wandsworth
District paying £100 for the option of one site for two years,
and will pay £100 per annum in addition as rent, should they exercise
the option.'
"The following is a copy of the recommendation: 'That the offer
of Messrs. Glasier & Sons to recommend their clients to reserve to
the Board for two years acres of land on the Wimbledon Park
Estate as a site for a Cholera Hospital for the joint use of Putney
and Wandsworth, if required, on payment by the Board of a sum of
£100 for such reservation, if the land is used the Board to pay a rent
of ^100 per annum, to erect a close boarded fence not less than
6 feet high, to leave such fence at the end of the term, not to cut
more turf than is absolutely necessary, and to metal the roadway over
the portion of Standen Road which they would use (the agreement
to be prepared by the Surveyor's Solicitor at the Board's expense) be
accepted; and that all costs in connection with the proposed hospital
be charged to the two parishes in equal proportions.'
"I have visited the works of Messrs. Humphreys, Limited,
Knightsbndge, and have inspected one of their iron hospital buildings.
The one I viewed was to house 12 patients, 6 male and 6 female,