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known, than persons interested in the locality, applied for and
obtained an injunction to restrain the Guardians from using the
hospital for the reception of small-pox cases, although the buildings
at Mary Place might be deemed to be, and have been used as, a
supplementary " workhouse."
Action of St. Pancras Vestry.—At about the same time
the St. Pancras Vestry desired to provide a temporary tent hospital
some miles distant from their parish, on land adjoining the
parochial cemetery at Finchley, and they did so, though not without
threats of legal proceedings to restrain their intended action
by injunction. This Vestry took the somewhat remarkable step of
officially congratulating the plaintiffs in the cause celebre, "Hill
others v. the Managers," on their success in obtaining the injunction
against the Hampstead Hospital, and they invited other Vestries,
etc., to join -with them in opposing, so far as they could, the
further prosecution of the appeal (No. 1) by the Managers to the
House of Lords, for a new trial of the "Hampstead Hospital Case"—
action on their part intelligible, seeing that the hospital is,
comparatively speaking, in their near neighbourhood, and that they
are enabled to obtain beds for then sick by sending them across
London, through Kensington, to Fulham Hospital. Eighty
patients have been admitted to the hospital from St. Pancras,
between January 1st and June 30th, 1881.*
Proceedings of Islington Vestry.—A proposal was made to
open the Holloway Workhouse, belonging to the City of London
Guardians, for the reception of small-pox cases, at the time when
the hospitals of the Managers were full. The proposal was
strongly opposed by the Islington Vestry, who waited on the
Managers to enforce their objections. They had to confess, however,
that although they had many cases of small-pox in their district,
they had made no provision for the treatment of them,* and that
they had sent many patients to the hospitals of the Managers out
* Since the Report has been in type the St. Pancras and Islington Vestries
have provided Tent Hospitals at Finchley, the former for 5° patients, at
a cost of about £2,500, and the latter for 123 patients, at a cost of some £4,000.
But not many patients have hitherto (July) been admitted into these hospitals.