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arrangement, unless it be such as proposed by the Kensington Vestry
in a series of resolutions as follows:—
(a) That the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums Board should be empowered
to make adequate provision of hospital accommodation for infectious disease
for all classes of the population in need of such accommodation.
(b) That patients should be admitted into the Managers' hospitals upon certificates
signed by any duly qualified medical practitioner.
(c) That as the hospitals of the Managers have been established for the common
good at the public cost, no compulsory payment should be exacted from persons
whom the Sanitary Authority may deem it necessary or expedient to remove
to the hospitals for the purpose of isolation.
(d) That all expenses incident to the maintenance and treatment of such persons
in the hospitals should be defrayed out of a Common Sanitary Fund, the
Metropolis being treated for the purpose as a single district ; and
(e) That steps should be taken to alter, by Act of Parliament, the constitution of
the Board, by severing its connexion with pauperism, in so far as relates to
the treatment of infectious disease, and by providing for the election of a
certain proportion of the Managers by the several Sanitary Authorities, i.e.,
the Vestries and District Boards of Works.
The Society of Medical Officers of Health have adopted the following resolution
framed by their Council:—"The Council having taken into consideration the Special
Report of the General Purposes Committee of the Metropolitan Asylums Board,
with the knowledge of the fact that in some parishes and districts, from want of
co-operation between the Poor Law and Sanitary Authorities, difficulty has been
experienced in obtaining the removal to the Asylums Board Hospitals of cases of
infectious diseases, cannot but approve the plan of contracts suggested by the
Managers under the provisions of the Poor Law Act, 1879, sec. 15. At the same
time the Council are of opinion that, as relief in the hospitals no longer entails
pauperisation, cases should be admitted upon the certificate of any medical practitioner,
that the expense of treating cases in the hospitals should be defrayed out of a
Common Sanitary Fund (the Metropolis being treated as a single district for the
purpose), and that no compulsory payment should be extracted from persons removed
to hospitals for the pupose of isolation."
I can only repeat that through the kind co-operation of Mr. W.
Vallance, on the part of the Board of Guardians, so far as our
District is concerned, I have had no reason to find fault with existing
arrangements.
Licensed Cow-Houses. The following received renewal of
licenses in October, 1884:—
WHITECHAPEL.
Brown, Frederick William 33, Old Montague-street.
Davies, John 11, Black Lion-yard.
Edwards, Evan 6, White's-row.
James, William 3, Finch-street.
Jones, John Evan (late Eliza) 20, Chamber-street (rear of)
Lewis, William Plough-square.
Sole, Isaac Walton's-yard, Cable-street.
Watson, Thomas 64, Old Montague-street.
CHRISTCHURCH.
Barker, Daniel Saw-yard, Tenter-street.
Edwards, Abraham 6, White's-row.
Morgan, Evan David 155, Commercial-street.
Underwood, Edward 15, Tilley-street.
Webb, John 16, Grey Eagle-street.
Williams, Ann 37, Hanbury-street.