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condition that all the expenses in connection therewith be repaid
by the Guardians, and this subject to the provisions of clause i.
3. The payments by the Guardians to the District Council to be
half-yearly on the 30th June and the 31st December in each year.
4. The Agreement to be determinable by either party by a three
calendar months' notice in writing, expiting on either of the usual
quarter days in March, June, September or December.
5. The Agreement to be without prejudice to the rights of either
party.
6. A.ny dispute between the parties to be settled by the Local
Government Board.
Mr. Harding, Clerk of Wood Green, presented a draft agreed on at a
meeting of the Sanitary Authorities at Wood Green on the previous day, which
met with the approval of the Medical Officers of Health present, but Mr. Cole,
Chairman of the Infirmary Committee, proposed the following resolution :—
A. " That the representatives present recommend their Councils to enter
into an agreement to receive, isolate and provide for all the ten
kinds of infectious disease arising outside the Guardians premises
for a payment of 3d. per head of the population or such additional
sum as the Local Government Board may decide on ; and to receive,
isolate and provide medical attendance for the four diseases
mentioned by Dr. Lawrence, viz.: scarlet fever, diphtheria, enteric
fever and small-pox for 2d. per head of the population."
On being put to the representatives, seven of them held up their
hands in favour of the proposal and none against ; the officials did not vote,
only Councillors.
On 26th November, Mr. Shelton sent a copy of " what he understood to
be" the resolution passed at the meeting of 24th November. This was as
follows :
B. " That in the opinion of this conference of representatives of the several
Sanitary Authorities in the Middlesex portion of the Edmonton
Union, the Guardians should pay annually to the Councils 3d.
per head of the population, according to the last census, for dealing
with all cases of infectious disease without enquiry as to whether