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In submitting the above Resolutions to the Council, we pointed on
that we were approaching the Metropolitan Asylums Board with a view
to the use of their vacant Isolation Hospitals as sanatoria for consumptive
patients and that we were also considering the question of taking action
in the direction indicated in Resolution 3.
The Council, upon our recommendation, expressed its agreement with
the terms of the above Resolutions.
We then approached the Metropolitan Asylums Board, but found that
they had decided to use their vacant Isolation Hospitals for other purposes,
and the matter dropped.
Section 75 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, is as follows:—
75. (1) Any sanitary authority may provide for the use of the inhabitants
of their district hospitals, temporary or permanent,
and for that purpose may—
(a) Themselves build such hospitals, or
(b) Contract for the use of any hospital or part of a hospital, or
(c) Enter into any agreement with any person having the
ment of any hospital for the reception of the sick inhabitants
of their district on payment of such annual or other sum as
may be agreed on.
(2) Two or more sanitary authorities may combine in providing
a common hospital.
We have for some considerable time past had the question of the provision
of sanatoria treatment for consumptives under consideration, and upon our
instructions the Medical Officer of Health prepared a report upon the matter,
It will be observed in the report that the Medical Officer of Health estimates
that the cost of maintaining 10 beds in a sanatorium, or sanatoria, will be from
£500 to £800, and we are of opinion that the Council should, as an experiment
maintain for a period of one year 10 beds in already established sanatoria, and
we have instructed the Medical Officer of Health to make enquiries as to the
exact terms upon which this scheme could be carried into effect.
We therefore propose, subject to the approval of the Finance and Parliamentary
Committee, to include in the next estimates the sum necessary to cover
the expenditure to be incurred if the Council approves the proposal.
We have authorised to be circulated to members, as a separate document, copy
of a Report by the Medical Officer of Health upon the subject.
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