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The Report was submitted to the Finance Committee, which submitted the
following Report to the Council:—
We have had under consideration the following reference from the Public Health
Committee upon a proposal that, under the powers contained in Section 75 of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, the Council should, as an experiment, defray
for a period of one year the cost of maintaining 10 beds in a sanatorium, or sanatoria,
viz.:—
Provision of Sanatorium Treatment for Consumptives.
At the Meeting of the Council, held on the 15th June, 1910, we submitted
the following Resolutions which were passed at the Conference of Representatives
of the Corporation of the City of London and Metropolitan and City
Borough Councils, viz. :—
1. That this Conference is of opinion that the provision of sanatoria
for the educational and curative treatment of cases of tuberculosis is advisable.
2. (a) That in the opinion of this Conference it is desirable that a
sanatorium should be established for the accommodation of persons of the
working classes of the Metropolis suffering from tuberculosis, and that such
institution should be maintained by a charge upon the several Metropolitan
Boroughs in accordance with their respective rateable values.
(b) That in the opinion of this Conference the proposed sanatorium
should be under the direct control of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, and that such authority be asked to seek
the necessary Parliamentary powers for that purpose, if
necessary.
(c) That copies of the above Resolutions be forwarded to the
Metropolitan Asylums Board and to the Local Government
Board.
3. That pending the provision of a sanatorium for the working classes
it is desirable that each Municipal Authority should secure beds in some
existing sanatorium according to the provisions of Section 75 of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891.
4. That in the opinion of this Conference the establishment of tuberculosis
dispensaries in each of the Metropolitan Boroughs would be a desirable
adjunct in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis.