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subject) upon a letter, dated 12th July, 1902, which the Bermondsey
Borough Council had addressed to the Board, and in which they
advocated the establishment by the Managers of sanatoria for the treatment
of consumptive persons.
When we discussed this matter at our meeting on the 24th
November, 1902, and decided to defer consideration of the question for
twelve months, we were informed that from the replies then received by
the Bermondsey Borough Council from the other Metropolitan Borough
Councils, it appeared that of the 26 Councils who had been asked to
support the action taken by Bermondsey 10 approved of the suggestion
that the Managers should provide sanatoria for the purpose proposed, 5
approved of the principle of the need for open-air treatment of consumptives,
but were not agreed as to who should be the authority for
giving effect to the same, whilst the remaining 11 Councils had either
taken no action in the matter or were not at the time in favour of the
proposal. Since November, 1902, further letters on the subject have
been received from most of the other Borough Councils, and also from
certain of the Boards of Guardians of the Metropolis, the following brief
synopsis giving the purport of the communications received up to date,
viz.:—
The Westminster City Council and the Borough Councils of
Battersea, Bermondsey, Chelsea, Fulham, Hackney, Kensington,
Poplar, St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Shoreditch, Stepney, and
Woolwich, together with the Guardians of the Poor of Chelsea,
Holborn, Paddington, Poplar, and Wandsworth and Clapham,
approve of the proposal.
The Borough Council of Finsbury approve of the principle,
but are unable to form an opinion as to the authority who should
administer the proposed sanatoria.
The Borough Council of Stoke Newington agree to the
posal, but think that the cases treated should bo limited to those
in which it is necessary to prevent the exposure of others to serious
risks of infection.