Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report for the year 1903 of the Medical Officer of Health
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further inquiries in regard thereto; and that the Local Government
Board, the several Boards of Guardians, the Borough Councils, and
the Medical Officers of Health be so informed. [Adopted.
(Signed) R. Strong,
Chairman.
It appears to mo that this is a question of much importance, and
that the provision of Sanatoria for consumptive patients in London can
only be dealt with by a central authority, and that the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, controlling as it does hospital accommodation for
infectious cases throughout the whole of the Administrative County of
London, is the body which should take in hand this important work.