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Administrative County of London (hereinafter called the Council) of the
other part whereas the St. Pancras Dispensary was instituted in the year
1810 with the object of affording to poor persons medical and surgical
attendance and medicine and for other purposes, and is supported by
voluntary subscriptions and donations, and is managed by a Committee
appointed annually by the Governors, and whereas the Committee of
the St. Pancras Dispensary have recently purchased for £700 the lease
of 39, Oakley Square aforesaid, and such lease is now vested in the
Trustees for the residue of a term of 99 years from Lady-day, 1855. at
a rent of £23, and whereas the said Committee have opened a department
for the treatment of tuberculosis cases at 39, Oakley Square aforesaid,
and have provided for the same certain fixtures, fittings, and apparatus,
and whereas the Committee have, under the National Insurance Act,
1911, applied to the Local Government Board for a capital grant towards
the cost of such department, but the said Board require as a condition
precedent to making such grant that the Trustees and the Borough
Council shall enter into the agreement hereinafter set out, now it is
hereby Agreed between the Trustees and the Council as follows :—
I. If at any time during the currency of the said lease the said Board
shall, in writing, express to the Committee of the Dispensary
their dissatisfaction with the manner in which the said tuberculosis
department is being carried on, the Trustees will report
to the Borough Council such expression of dissatisfaction, and
will, on being requested so to do by the Council, and upon a
resolution of the Committee to that effect, transfer to the Council
such department and all the fixtures, fittings, and apparatus
as then existing, and used in connection therewith, and the
premises in which the said tuberculosis department shall be
carried on upon the terms and conditions following, that is
to say: —
(a) Such request of the Borough Council shall be in writing
under the hand of the Town Clerk for the time being,
and shall embody the written expression of dissatisfaction
as received from the Local Government Board,
and shall be communicated to the Committee by service
of the same upon their Secretary for the time being, or
by letter addressed to him and forwarded by registered
post, and shall state the date within a period not
exceeding three months, on which they intend to take
over the said department to the intent that from
such date the Borough Council shall maintain the said
department in accordance with the National Insurance
Act, 1911.
(h) Upon a resolution of the Committee authorising it the
transfer shall be carried out by the Trustees granting to
the Borough Council an underlease of so much of the
premises, 39, Oakley Square aforesaid, as shall for the
time being be set apart or used for the said tuberculosis
department for the residue of the term granted by the