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Leyton 1903

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]

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17
PERMANENT ISOLATION HOSPITAL SITE.
Throughout the year the present Hospital having been inadequate
to deal with all the cases of Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria that had to
be removed, I had to draw attention, in several of my Monthly
Reports, to this most important matter, hoping to get an early reply
from the Local Government Board.
On March 10th the latter wrote, leaving the Council to weigh any
objections which they might consider to attach to the suggested
advantages of the alternative sites proposed, and to decide with due
regard for all the circumstances which of the sites it would be most
expedient to acquire for the Hospital. The same letter conveyed the
intimation that if the Council decided upon the Oliver Road Site the
Local Government Board would not decline to sanction the loan
applied for, subject to the site not being used for Small Pox Hospital.
To this the Council made the following resolutions and amendments : —
"Moved by Councillor Trumble and seconded by Councillor
"Chew. That the Council, having given due consideration to
'the letter of the Local Government Board of the 10th March,
"1903 (24,275 M. 1903), in reference to site for an Isolation
"Hospital, is of opinion that the Oliver Road Site, as proposed
"by the Council, should be utilised for the purpose, and
"request the Local Government Board to issue Sanction for
"Loan, the Council undertaking that it will not erect a Small"pox
Hospital thereon, or within a quarter of a mile of the site,
"and further, that the Surveyor be instructed to prepare the
"necessary specification and estimate for fencing and planting
"a belt of trees, etc., on site.
"Amendment: Mover—Councillor Alexander. Seconder—
"Councillor Bond. That the letter of the Local Government
"Board be referred to a Special Committee for consideration
"and report.
"Amendment put to the vote and declared lost."
A debate thereupon ensuing, and the hour of 10.30 having
arrived, it was resolved that the Standing Orders be suspended, for the
purpose of enabling the Motion now before the Council to be disposed
of and for completing the other business on the Agenda.
The debate thereupon proceeded, and the motion was put to the
vote. Then followed the amendment: Mover —Councillor Alexander.
Seconder—Councillor Cox. That the letter of the Local Government
Board be referred to the Public Health Committee for consideration
and report.