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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

City of London 1899

Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1899

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44
Thus the 75th Section recites:—
(1) That "any Sanitary Authority may pro"vide
for the use of the inhabitants of their
"district hospitals temporary or permanent
"and for that purpose may:
"(a) Themselves build such hospitals, or,
"(b) Contract for the use of any hospital
"or part of a hospital;
"(c) Enter into any arrangement with any
"person having the management of any
"hospital for the reception of the sick
"inhabitants of their district on payment of
"such annual or other sum as may be
"agreed on."
This Section is permissive only, but if any
great emergency arose, and the public safety
demanded additional powers, it would doubtless
be made mandatory by an "Order in Council."
The Sanitary Committee experienced great
difficulty a few years ago in finding a suitable
site or sites upon which to erect either a Shelter