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The following letter was also received from Miss MacQueen, Principal
of the Royal College of St. Katharine : —
“ The Royal College of St. Katharine,
Bromley Hall,
Brunswick Road,
Poplar, E.
January 29th, 1917.
Dear Sir,
I have to acknowledge and thank you for your letter of the 25th,
enclosing a copy of your letter to Sir Henry Streatfield, and also for
the kind expression of your Council's appreciation of the work which
we are doing here.
Yours faithfully,
K. S. MACQUEEN,
Principal.
The Royal College of St. Katharine and the Poplar Infant
Care Association.
Re-arrangement of Areas.
The Poplar Infant Care Association desired to concentrate its
work, under the Council's Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme, on
the Isle of Dogs, and the other part of the area hitherto allocated to
the Association under the scheme was transferred to the Royal College
of St. Katharine with the oonsent of the Chapter of the College. St.
Katharine's College has the staff and means to deal effectually with
the enlarged District, and the whole of the area between Bow Road
and the Isle of Dogs is now in charge of the College.
The Public Health and Housing Committee were of opinion the
extension of the area of St. Katherine's College would most effectually
secure the efficient working of the Maternity Scheme, and that it was
at present inadvisable to divide the area in order to bring in other
organisations, especially having regard to the necessity of dealing
effectually from an administrative and statistical point of view with,
infantile diarrhoea and measles.
The re-arrangement was approved by the Local Government Board's
Inspector.
The Committee recommended the Council that the re-arrangement
of areas, as stated, in connection with the Council's Maternity Scheme,
be approved.