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the Board, and the future proceeds of the charity, after
deducting £5 per annum for apprentice fees and the costs
of the administration of the charity, will in like manner
he paid over to the Board.
Disinfecting Public
Vehicles.
The Board have received a communication
from the Metropolitan Asylums Board
pointing out that notwithstanding the prohibition
contained in section 70 of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, infectious cases are occasionally taken to
hospitals in public vehicles, and enquiring whether the
Board were in a position to undertake the disinfection of
such vehicles, and if so, where. The Board had made
arrangements with their contractor for the disinfecting
of public vehicles which had been used for persons
residing in the District suffering from infectious disease,
but they were of opinion that it would be for the public
advantage that vehicles which had been used for
conveying patients to the hospitals of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board should be disinfected before they leave
the hospital, and they informed the Asylums Board
accordingly, and intimated that they would be willing
to pay for the cost of disinfecting any public vehicle
which had been used for the conveyance to the
hospital of a person residing in this District. The
Metropolitan Asylums Board, however, declined to
undertake such disinfection, and the Board have now
forwarded to the Local Government Board a copy of
the correspondence and have requested them to support
the views of this Board in the matter.
Combined
Drainage.
A conference of representatives of Vestries
and District Boards was convened by the Board of Works
for the Holborn District in May last to consider some
difficulties which had arisen with regard to the liability
for repairs to drains which are used for the drainage of a
group or block of houses by a combined operation. The