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As the Guardians however were contemplating a similar step,
your Committee submitted to them the desirability of taking united
action, and they expressed their willingness to do so, but for the
fact that they no longer regarded it as necessary for them to make
any provision owing to the increased accommodation being provided
for pauper patients by the District Asylums Board, through
the removal of a large number of convalescents to the camp established
by them at Darenth.
Your Committee have also been in communication with the
Vestry of St. Pancras, who have erected hospital marquees upon the
piece of land immediately adjoining the field pointed out for the use
of this Vestry, and your Committee propose to make if possible, an
arrangement with them on the part of your Vestry for the reception
and treatment of Islington non-pauper patients, upon a specific
payment for each case, or in some other way to make the services
of one staff available for both Parishes, but they have not as yet
received a final answer to their enquiry.
Failing such arrangements it is proposed, should the emergency
again arise, to have at once temporary hospital accommodation
provided for non-pauper patients upon the land at Finchley,
together with all other necessary accommodation, and to engage
such staff and attendants as may be found requisite.
Your Committee therefore—
RECOMMEND the Vestry to authorise Hospital accommodation
to be provided for 32 small pox patients, at an estimated cost of
£300, should this course, in the opinion of the Sanitary Committee
become urgently necessary during the present prevalance of
small pox, or to make such arrangements with St. Pancras, or some
other authority, as may be practicable, for the reception of Islington
cases.
All which is submitted.
(Signed) W. M. MOXON,
Chairman, Sanitary Committee.
Vestry Offices,
Upper Street,
16th May, 1881.