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for treatment in the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board, and to the fact that the Metropolitan Borough Councils
are the authorities in the Metropolis primarily charged with
the prevention of infectious diseases in London, it is desirable
that the constitution of the Metropolitan Asylums Board
should be revised, with a view to the Metropolitan Borough
Councils being represented on the Board so that the local
sanitary authorities may be brought into closer relationship
with the Hospital Authority in the Metropolis.
I was instructed to forward copies of these resolutions to the
Local Government Board, the London County Council, the
Metropolitan Asylums Board and the Metropolitan Borough
Councils, and to ask the latter to take similar action, if they are in
agreement with the views of the Council on the matter.
Yours truly,
LIONEL WALFORD,
Town Clerk.
The Town Clerk of the
Metropolitan Borough of Poplar.
The Public Health and Housing Committee recommended the
Council, that the action of the Holborn Borough Council in this matter
be supported.
Treatment of Tuberculosis in London.
Tuberculosis Dispensaries, etc.
The following letter was considered by the Public Health and Housing
Committee:—
Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea.
Town Hall, King's Road, S.W.
14th July, 1913.
Dear Sir,
Tuberculosis Dispensaries.
The Public Health Committee reported to the Council, at
their last meeting, that it had come to their knowledge that the