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chased by agreement, in which event the Broomhill Road
site would be dropped. The Board thereupon wrote to
the Education Department asking them to support the
objection of the Board, and subsequently the School
Board agreed to abandon the site.
Metropolitan
Asylums Board.
Dr. Howell and Mr. Stedman were
appointed by the Board to attend a
Conference convened by the St. Marylebone Vestry to
consider the question of the inability of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board to provide sufficient accommodation
for the infectious sick. The resolutions
passed at such Conference were as follows, viz.:—
1.—That a communication be addressed to the Metropolitan Asylums
Board, strongly urging that Board to take steps to immediately open
the vacant beds of the Gore Farm Hospital at Darenth, for the purpose
of providing the temporary accommodation required by the London
Local Authorities for the cases of scarlet fever urgently requiring
removal from the crowded families and houses in which they are
spreading the disease.
2.—That in the opinion of this Conference the Authorities making
the Rate to raise the funds for the requirements of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board should be entitled to be directly and adequately
represented upon that Board.
3. —That the President of the Local Government Board be asked
to receive a Deputation in support of the foregoing resolutions.
The President of the Local Government Board,
however, did not think that any useful purpose would
be served by his receiving the proposed Deputation at
the present time.
No resolution having been passed by the Conference
on the question of the provision of temporary
hospital accommodation for the infectious sick in times
of pressure, the Board wrote to the Metropolitan
Asylums Board suggesting that the Managers should
furnish to the several sanitary authorities of London
a full statement showing what efforts had been made