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The New Fever Hospital.
20. A Local Government Board Enquiry was held in Woolwich
on the proposed New Hospital in Shooter's Hill Road, and
I attended and gave evidence in favour of the proposal. The
Hospital is now in course of erection and I think it is great
cause for congratulation that we shall have a Hospital so near
to us. Instead of its being a source of infection as many fear,
it should be just the opposite: by collecting all infectious persons
within its walls from the neighbourhood it diminishes the
risk of their spreading infection by being at large.
The Health Refuge.
21. A house has been taken and furnished as a shelter for
families requiring accommodation while their rooms are being
disinfected. So far it has been used in only one case.
C—Sanitary Work.
Water Supply.
1. The water of the Kent Company's well in Park Road was
on my request, analysed by the Board's Analyst, and reported to
be of excellent quality.
2. It will be remembered that in 1891 the question of this
well was investigated by General Scott, the Local Government
Board Inspector, and that after analysis he reported that though
at the present time the water of the well is pure and good drinking
water, the analysis, compared with previous ones, shews that the
water is changing in its character in a way that proves an
increasing impregnation of the soil with organic matter. Having