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the Local Government Board for the purpose of drawing attention to the serious
menace to public health induced by the unreasonable attitude of the Guardians,
and to ask for their intervention in the interests of the poor people affected.
This had been my advice in January.
On the 18th February our Clerk and I visited the Local Government
Board and in March presented a report on the interview to the Sanitary Committee.
At our suggestion the Guardians were informed that the Council have
been advised that they have not legal power to enter into any agreement with
them with reference to the isolation of cases of infectious disease, but that the
proper authority with whom the Board should endeavour to make an agreement
is the Enfield and Edmonton Joint Hospital Board. The Sanitary Committee
of 8th April considered a letter received from Mr. Shelton of the 2ist March, to
which only a formal acknowledgment was sent by us.
On 19th June a conference was held at the Local Government Board
between the local sanitary authorities and the Edmonton Guardians and three
representatives of the Board.
A letter of Mr. Shelton, dated July 23rd, reached the Sanitary Committee
(after the long vacation) on September 2nd, inviting representatives of the
Sanitary Authorities to meet a committee of six Guardians at the workhouse
with a view to making arrangements for the maintenance and isolation of persons
suffering from infectious disease and chargeable to the common fund of the
Union. Councillor S. J. Sanders (Chairman of the Sanitary Committee),
Councillor Charles Sorreli, the Clerk and I attended on 27th October and 24th
November (without Mr. Sorrell).
At this conference I suggested the following heads of agreement which
might meet with the approval of the Medical Officers of Health concerned:—
1. Outdoor. The Guardians to pay to the Edmonton District
Council Id. per head of the population of the Edmonton District
according to the last census, for isolation of cases of scarlet fever,
diphtheria, enteric fever and small-pox, arising in the District of
Edmonton outside the premises belonging to the Edmonton
Guardians without enquiring whether such cases are or are not
pauper cases. This is subject to accommodation at the hospitals
being available. The Medical Officer of Health to be the judge
of what cases should be isolated.
2. Indoor. With reference to the persons resident within the
institutions of the Edmonton Guardians, they shall be removed,
isolated, treated and maintained by the Council concerned on the