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On the 11th July the following letter on the above subject was
addressed to your Vestry Clerk by Mr.T.Duncombe Mann, Clerk
to the Metropolitan Asylums Board: —
The Metropolitan Asylums Board,
Norfolk House,
Norfolk Street,
11 July, 1895.
Dear Sir,
Hospital accommodation for Fever Patients.
I regret to inform you that the available accommodation at the
Hospitals of this Board for patients suffering from Scarlet Fever
and Diphtheria is nearly exhausted, and that new cases can only be
admitted as vacancies are occasioned by discharges and deaths.
I have, therefore, to express the hope that instructions may be
given by your Board (or Vestry) to the Officers concerned, to
arrange for preference being given to the removal to the Board's
Hospitals of those patients who, as a consequence of their surroundings
and conditions of life, are most in need of Hospital treatment.
I am also to ask your Board (or Vestry) to be good enough to
instruct all Officers, who make applications for the removal of
patients, to ascertain whether their requests are complied with or
not, and when they have not been complied with, to repeat their
applications day by day so long as their patients continue in a fit
condition for removal and until the removal is effected, and to add
a statement of the circumstances which render the removal of the
cases urgent.
Yours faithfully,
T. DUNCOMBE MANN,
Clerh to the Board.
To—
G. W. Murnane, Esq.,
The Clerk to the Vestry of
St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
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