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is barely large enough for one patient. I had previously
recommended that proper means of isolation should be provided.
The Company was again requested to provide means
of isolation and on their neglecting to do so a copy of the
correspondence was sent to the Charity Commissioners.
Customs and Inland Revenue Act.
45. An application was received for a certificate to grant
exemption under the Act from payment in full of inhabited
house duty, with respect to a block of fiats in Nightingale
Place, mainly occupied by married officers of the army. The
certificate was refused on the ground that the houses did not
offer suitable sanitary accommodation for the inmates, in the
respect that the soil pipes were inside the walls of the house,
and that there was no accommodation outside the flats for the
dust pails.
Royal Aesenal—Sanitary Improvements
46. The Arsenal is outside the scope of the Public Health
Acts, but it is satisfactory to learn that its sanitary condition
has received recently very considerable attention, both from
the Medical Officers in charge and from Inspectors of the
Factories and Workshops Department of the Home Office, with
the result that great improvements have taken place in sanitary
conveniences, ventilation and other directions.
Public Ambulance.
47. It also deserves to be chronicled that a Public Ambulance
for non-infectious cases has been provided by public
subscription, vested in trustees (The Rector of Woolwich,
Aldermen Turton and Kelham, W. H. Lewis, Esq., and the
Medical Officer of Health) and put in the care of a cab
proprietor (Mr. Chick) from whom it can be obtained on