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Cholera. During the past year the Board have given
much attention to the question of the measures of a
precautionary character which should be adopted in view
of the possible introduction of cholera into London. In
September last a notice drawn up by the Medical Officers
of Health containing advice as to steps to be taken for the
prevention of cholera, and for dealing with cases should
any occur, was printed, and a copy thereof left at every
house in the District. The Board have since communicated
with all the medical practitioners in the District with
the view of arrangements being made for immediate
medical attendance and medicine being given free to the
poorer inhabitants of the District who may suffer from
diarrhoea or cholera. They are also making arrangements
for the erection of temporary hospitals for the sick and for
providing places of shelter for the residents of houses
where cases of the disease may occur, and the patients
cannot be removed. Further particulars on this subject
will be found in the annual report of the Medical Officers
of Health.
Proposed Fever
Hospital at Tooting.
The Metropolitan Asylums Board decided
in January last to purchase, subject to the approval of the
Local Government Board, the Tooting Lodge Estate
facing Tooting Common for the purpose of erecting
thereon a fever hospital. Only a year ago the Board
contributed £1,676, and residents in the locality subscribed
£1,800, towards the cost of purchasing a piece of
land covered with a fine grove of trees which adjoined
this Common to add it to the Common. Having regard
to the enormous number of persons who now resort to
Tooting Common for recreative purposes the Board felt
that the site chosen was a most unsuitable one, and they
therefore opposed the scheme. There was also very
strong opposition from the residents in the locality. A
public inquiry into the proposal was held by the Local
Government Board at the Tooting Vestry Hall on the