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practical experience in regard to provision of hospitals, and the treatment
of the infectious sick, the Board are eminently qualified for the
discharge of this duty, the effective performance of which, by any
competent authority, could not fail to be attended with great advantages
in the interests of public health."
The Branch, moreover, having considered my proposal to utilise
Gore Farm Hospitals for this purpose, adopted a further resolution,
as follows:—
"That the above resolution be transmitted to the Board with an
expression of the hope of the Branch that —should the Managers
decide to undertake the treatment of consumptive patients-they
may be pleased to take into consideration the question, whether the
Gore Farm Hospitals, which have ceased to be reckoned as small-pox
hospitals, would be suitable for the purpose, seeing that the said
hospitals could be brought into use at an early date, and that the
utilisation of them would save an otherwise necessarily large expenditure
by the provision of hospitals specially erected for the purpose."
Both resolutions having been unanimously adopted, I though! it
well to communicate them to the Medical Officers of Health who
were unable to be present at the meeting, all of whom have signified
agreement therewith, excepting two: in one case, inability to do so
was frankly based on an acknowledgment of incompetency to form
opinion, the officer not having considered the matter, nor had an
opportunity of examining the question.
A communication embodying the, resolutions, addressed to the
Asylums Board by the Hon. Secretary of the Branch, has been
referred to the General Purposes Committee, at whose meeting, on
November 23rd, consideration the reference of July, 1902, will be
resumed.
The King's Sanatorium.- Public interest in the general question
has been Stimulated during the present month in connexion with the
laying of the foundation stone, by the King, of a Sanatorium which
his Majesty has been graciously pleased to honour by calling it after
his own name. This noble institution, it may he hoped, will Serve as
a monument of the King's concern lor the welfare of his people, until
tuberculosis shall have ceased to he the greatest of all the scourges
of the human race.
The Sanatorium is intended for the reception of 112 sufferers from
phthisis, all but twelve "belonging to a class above the very poorteachers,
governesses, and members of other ill-paid professions,
clerks, shop-assistants, and the like, for whom no provision in
sickness of this kind exists "- at present.
The site, 151 acres in extent, on the southern slope of Easebourne
Hill, in the Haslemere district of the county of Surrey, in the midst