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Tho duty of providing hospital accommodation for Cholera
patients being divided, as above explained, between the Managers
and the Sanitary Authorities generally, it is necessary that the
Sanitary Authorities should understand exactly where their action
in the event of an outbreak must begin, and for the Managers and
the Sanitary Authorities to act in harmony, so that no unnecessary
delays may occur.
They make the following recommendations :—
1. That the Managers do agree to utilize (as far as possible)
their own hospitals, ambulances, and staff, and arrange with
other institutions for the reception of cases of Cholera, the
responsibility of removing patients devolving upon the
Managers and not upon such institutions.
2. That, subject to the Local Government Board so desiring,
the Vestries and District Boards (being the Sanitary
Authorities of the Metropolis) be informed what provision
the Managers will be able to make for the treatment of
Cholera patients, and also that the Managers are not able to
extend such accommodation unless they (the Sanitary
Authorities) are themselves able within a limited period to
point out where buildings or plots of land could be obtained
for the purpose, and that the duty of providing hospital
accommodation for Cholera patients, in the event of the
accommodation provided by the Managers being insufficient
or becoming exhausted, will devolve upon them.
In compliance with Mr. Jebb's request, I forwarded to the Board
a list of sites or vacant plots of ground in this Parish where I
thought it would be possible to erect temporary hospitals. These
sites were examined by the officers of the Board, but the only one
considered suitable was the site of the Peel Grove Burial Ground,
and upon this spot it was considered that, if required, an hospital
to accommodate twenty patients might be erected.
Local Government Board,
Whitehall, S.W.,
29th July, 1885.
Sir,
I am directed by the Local Government Board to state that
having regard to the serious and continued prevalence of Cholera in