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Long Reach for additional hospital accommodation for small-pox patients.
The Managers have also under consideration the question of securing a site
for the erection of a permanent convalescent fever hospital in South London,
presumably similar to the Winchmore Hill convalescent hospital to the north
of Loudon.
The eight hospitals of tho Hoard mentioned above are:—The Eastern
Hospital at Homerton, N.E.; the Gore Farm Hospital, Darenth, Dartford,
Kent; the North-Eastern Fever Hospital. St. Anne's Road, South Tottenham
; the North-Western Fever Hospital, Haverstock Hill, N. W.; tho
Northern Hospital, Winchmore Hill, N.; the South-Eastern Fever Hospital,
Hatfield Street, New Cross Road, S.E.; tho South-Western Fever Hospital,
Stockwell, S.W.; and the Western Fever Hospital, Seagravo Road, Fulham,
S.W. In addition to these, but not under tho Managers' control, are tho
London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, N., with 170 beds, and the Smallpox
Hospital, Highgate Hill, N., with 108 beds, and there are diphtheria
wards at University College Hospital, Gower Street, and tho Children's
Hospital, Great Ormond Street, W.C.
But, what is of most interest to St. Pancras is the statement in the Report
of the Ambulance Committee of the Board, that "compulsory powers have
been obtained, and the consequent negotiations are in progress for tho
acquisition of land which will form a site for a station at Hampstead."
It is greatly to be regretted that after years of patient waiting some
further statement cannot be made to tho effect that building operations
are being commenced, seeing that at the new Brook Hospital at Woolwich,
which is not yet completed, an ambulance station is in course of erection,
whilst the representations of St. Pancras made for many years past receive
such dilatory attention. The delay and inconvenience to St. Pancras
patients is considerable, as it is necessary to send either to Fulham or to
Homerton, some lour to five miles distant, to obtain an ambulance to
convey them to the Hospital at Haverstock Hill.
The spread of infectious diseases by vagrants.—In accordance with an invitation
by the London County Council the Delegates of a large number of
Metropolitan and Provincial Sanitary Authorities met in conference at Spring
Gardens on the 19th July, to consider "whether means can be adopted to
prevent the spread of infectious diseases" by vagrants, at which Conference
your Vestry was duly represented. Resolutions passed were to the following
effect:—
"(1) That common shelters which are not subject to the law relating to
common lodging houses should be subject to such law.
"(2) That there should be power to the local authority to require
medical examination of all persons entering common lodging
houses and casual wards, and that each inmate should on admission
ahve a bath of fresh water.
"(3) That the local authority should have power to order the keeper of
a common lodging house in which there has been infectious
disease, to refuse fresh admissious for such time as may be required
by the authority.