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very carefully considered. A copy of the reports and the report
of the Committee thereon will be found in the report of the Medical
Officer of Health, page 114. The Council, after considering the
report referred the whole question back to the Committee for
reconsideration of the schemes suggested and any others that may
be brought before the Committee. At present the Committee
have been unable to recommend a suitable site for the purpose
which can be obtained upon favourable terms.
Glanders.
76.—Owing to the prevalence of the disease of glanders, the
Council considered the advisability of adopting the
suggestion of the London County Council of closing
the cattle troughs under its control and providing stand pipes in lieu
thereof. This course was adopted in some Boroughs, but the
Council decided to maintain the troughs, and in addition to provide
stand pipes with spring valves to enable carmen to obtain
water otherwise than from the troughs if they desired.
Voluntary
notification of
consumption.
77..—The Council adopted, on the suggestion of the Medical
Officer of Health, the voluntary notification of consumption,
recommended by the conference on Tuberculosis
in July, 1 go 1. The fee payable by the Council
to medical practitioners for notification of cases is the same as for
other notifiable diseases, viz.:—2s. 6d. for each case notified in
private practice and I J. for each case notified in public practice.
Disinfection
of bedding
in lodginghouses.
78.—Upon the application of the London County Council the
Council decided to give facilities to keepers of common
lodging-houses to have bedding disinfected in
order to free it from vermin upon payment at the rate
of 15s. per cwt.
79.—Other information relating to Public Health is contained
in the Medical Officers report in the appendix.
Coronation
Gardens.
80.—At the Meeting of the Council on the 28th May, 1902,
the Mayor (Councillor Wm. John Lancaster, J.P.)
intimated that he was the owner of a piece of freehold
land containing an area of about two acres, adjoining the Board
school in Merton Road, Southfields, Wandsworth, a