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sick children will be kept therein, as every child who is sufficiently
ill to require more than two or three days treatment, will be at once
removed to the Infirmary of its Parish.
Trusting that this explanation will obviate any further fruitless
opposition, and assuring you of the earnest desire of my Board so
to conduct the school as to avoid causing the slightest nuisance or
even inconvenience to their neighbours,
Believe me, Yours truly,
(Signed) JOHN H. RUTHERGLEN,
T. E. Jones, Esq., Clerk, Clerk to the Managers.
Fulham Board of Works.
The Local Government Board was written to as follows:—
Board of Works, Fulham District.
Broadway House, Hammersmith,
16th August, 1882.
This Board has learnt with considerable dismay that the Managers
of the Kensington and Chelsea School District have made
arrangements for taking the property known as Marlesford Lodge,
Hammersmith, for the purpose of establishing a branch school for
the maintenance of certain classes of children, preparatory to sending
them to the District School at Banstead. The Board is informed
that the children to be maintained in this establishment are those
who are suffering from slight affections of the skin, scalp or eyes,
of a non-contagious character, or who from other causes cannot be
sent to the School at Banstead, in consequence of the strict nature
of the medical certificate; in addition to other pauper children.
This Board is of opinion that the establishment of such an institution
in the main thoroughfare of Hammersmith, would be a
source of nuisance and great injury to the surrounding neighbourhood,
and I am instructed to ask whether the scheme has been
sanctioned by the Local Governmeut Board, if not, I am to ask
that the sanction of the Board may be withheld until this Board has
further communicated its views to the Local Government Board.
I am Sir, Your obedient Servant,
Local Government Board, THOMAS EDWARD JONES,
Whitehall. Clerk to the Board.
A deputation was then appointed and waited upon the Local
Government Board, and expressed the views of this Board upon
the subject, and the following reply was received from the Local
Government Board.
Local Government Board,
Whitehall,
27th September, 1882,
Sir,
I am directed by the Local Government Board to state that they