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Orange Court, Great Wild Street, and in Marclnnont
Place, Little Coram Street. Both of these places formed
portions of areas condemned under the Artizans and
Labourers Dwellings Act, 1875.
Hospitals' Commission.—A Royal Commission, consisting
of Lord Blackford, Mr. Pemberton, M.P., Sir James
Paget, Bart., Sir Rutherford Alcock, Dr. Burdon Sanderson,
Dr. Alfred Carpenter, Dr. Broadbent, and Mr. Jonathan
Hutchinson, was appointed by the Government to inquire
into the management of small.pox and fever hospitals, with
a view to further legislation respecting them.
"1. As to the nature, extent, and sufficiency of the
hospital accommodation for small.pox and fever patients
provided by the managers of the Metropolitan Asylum
Board and the several Vestries and District Boards in the
Metropolis, including the Commissioners of Sewers for the
City of London.
"2. The relative advantages and disadvantages to
patients and the public of providing for small.pox and
fever cases, whether among persons of the pauper class or
persons of the non.pauper class, without proper means of
isolation, or both, by a limited number of hospitals for the
whole Metropolis under one authority, such as the Managers
of the Metropolitan Asylum District, or by parochial and
District hospitals under Vestries and District Boards.
"3. The expediency of continuing the several existing
small.pox and fever hospitals now under the managers of
the Metropolitan Asylum District; or if it be considered
desirable that any should be closed, the accommodation for
small.pox and fever cases which should be substituted.