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(b) T hat the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums Board by
reason of their practical experience in the management of hospitals
for infectious disease being eminently qualified for the
position of such authority, the Local Government Board be
requested to confer on, or if necessary, to obtain for, the said
Managers power to act in that capacity.
(c) That the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums Board should
also be empowered to use, for sanatorium purposes, the
"Southern Hospital" recently erected by them at Carshalton,
in the County of Surrey,
(g) That this Conference appoint a deputation to wait upon the
Government to urge the desirability of their providing a sum of money
annually for the erection and maintenance of suitable Sanatoria for the
treatment of early cases of consumption.
(h) That the President of the Local Government Board be asked to
receive a deputation from the Conference in support of the above resolutions,
and that he be urged to take such steps as may be necessary to give
effect to them.
90. The subject of the provision of a new Mortuary and a
Coroner's Court for Wandsworth has been further
Mortuary and considered, plans for a Mortuary on a site in Ram
Square, adjoining the Town Hall, were prepared,
but it was found impossible to provide a satisfactory building
owing to the insufficient area available for the purpose. The
Public Health Committee have now under consideration plans for
the erection of a Mortuary and Coroner's Court on part of the
land which was acquired for the cemetery in Magdalen Road,
adjoining Earlsfield Station.
91. The Council was represented at a Conference convened by
the Garden City Association on the subject of Town
Town Planning. Planning, by Alderman Robinson and Councillor
Blunt.
92. Other information relating to public health is contained
in the Medical Officer's Report, Appendix L.
93. The Council was informed in reply to its protest against
Secondary the election of Secondary School at West Hill,
Schools and Wandsworth, referred to in last year's annual
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College. report (p. 62), that, in view of the fact that the
purchase had been completed and the preliminary plans approved,
the County Council regretted it was too late to alter its decision