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Borough Councils and Boards of Guardians in which the establishment
by the Managers of sanatoria for the treatment of consumptive patients
has been strongly advocated.
At their meeting on the 28th ultimo the Managers had before them
a report on the subject (copy of which I enclose) from the General
Purposes Committee of this Board, and as the result of their consideration
of this report and of the recommendation embodied therein, I am
now directed to state that, in the opinion of the Managers, the question
of the proposed establishment of sanatoria for consumptive patients is
one of such vital and far-reaching importance to the community at large,
and the proposal one which, if adopted by the Managers, would entail so
considerable an extension of their duties and responsibilities, and so
large an increase in their expenditure, as to call for some authoritative
expression of opinion by the Local Government Board before the
Managers are asked to take any definite action in the matter, or to make
any further inquiries in regard thereto.
I may add that the Local Government Board have been duly
informed of the decision of the Managers on this subject as above set
forth.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
T. Duncombe Mann,
To the Medical Officer of Health, Clerk to the Board.
Borough of Hampstead.
Metropolitan Asylums Board.
Report of the General Purposes Committee submitted to the Board at their
meeting on the 28th November, 1903.
23rd November, 1903.
Proposed establishment of sanatoria for consumptives.—At the meeting
of the Board on the 26th July, 1902, we were instructed to consider and
report (in connection with other letters previously received on the same