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was so distant from human habitations, that the opposition to it on
the ground of nuisance failed utterly; a site more free from objection
on the score of danger to the public, could hardly have
been conceived. The Board, however, had been guilty of a trespass,
and on this technical ground they had no answer to the application
made by the Company to the Master of the Rolls, and they had to
submit to an order to remove the hospital so soon as the then
inmates should have recovered, and to agree not to place any fresh
patients in the hospital. The Board then proceeded to acquire a
site at Little Wormliolt Scrubbs, near the Latymer Road Station
on the Hammersmith and City Railway. But here again they were
opposed by the residents in the locality, although the nearest
house was some hundreds of yards distant. Trespass could not be
alleged in this instance, and the opposition on the ground of probable
"nuisance" collapsed. The Board, however, agreed not to provide
accommodation for more than fifty patients, without giving
notice to the complainants. The necessity for erecting the tents
has not arisen at the present time. The Board, I understand,
obtained permission to make some provision for cases of small-pox,
in the ample grounds of the Guardians at the Fulharn Union
Workhouse.
Action of the Kensington Board of Guardians.—In our own
parish the Guardians of the Poor were desirous of making
provision for cases that could not be received for want of
room at Fulham, or other hospitals of the Managers. The Local
Government Board had intimated to the Guardians ths necessity
of making such provision, and had enquired of them, as of every
other Board of Guardians, and of every Vestry and District Board
of Works, (the Nuisance Authorities), what steps they proposed to
take in the emergency? at the same time urging them to do something;
and pointedly, in the case of the Nuisance Authorities, calling
their attention to their duty to make such provision, under the
37th section of the Sanitary Act, 1866. The Guardians at once
arranged, with the approval of the Local Government Board, to
make provision for opening their hospital at Mary Place, in the
Potteries, Notting Dale, at a time moreover when there were
several cases kept at home in that neighbourhood, owing to the
block at Fulham and other hospitals. No sooner did this become