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The report was before the General Purposes Committee on the
9th inst., and in submitting it for the information of the Managers,
they recommended them to adopt the following resolution in regard
thereto, viz.:—
"That, in the opinion of the Managers, it is desirable and practicable
to extend the operations of the ambulance service so as to include the
transport of medical cases, surgical cases (other than cases of street
accidents), and persons of unsound mind; and that, upon the neecssary
legal authority being obtained for the Managers by the Local Government
Board, the work be Immediately undertaken, the cost of the proposed
service being covered by a charge of 7s. 6d. for each single journey by a
one-horse ambulance within the Metropolitan area."
The report of the Committee came before the Managers at the
meeting held on the 14th November, and after some discussion was
referred back for farther consideration and report.
It will be remembered that, as stated in my first report, this year
(page 6), this question was raised in a report by the Medical Officer
of the London County Council, to which was prefixed a prefatory
note, by Sir William J. Collins, Chairman of the Ambulance Sub-
Committee of the General Purposes Committee. We may be certain
that the question, thus raised, has come to stay, and that if the
Asylums Board do not deal with it. the County Council will-with,
we cannot doubt, the energy manifested by them in all matters
affecting the welfare of the citizens of London, and with their
customary success.
THE HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES.
With further reference to this subject, dealt with in the preceding
report, we learn from the reply to a question put to the
Chairman of the Housing of the Working Classes Committee of the
London County Council, (November 10th), that the Council own 4.363
tenement, providing for 22.222 persons, the total rental, in 1902,
being £81,000. It would be interesting to know what these dwellings
and the sites have cost. The work accomplished- extending over
many years —is no doubt excellent; but how Little it is! having regard
to the fact that the population of the Metropolis increases by over
40,000 every year.
At the same meeting the Committee reported the receipt of
"official representations" from Medical Officers of Health declaring
insanitary certain areas in the boroughs of Hampstead and Holborn,