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have had under consideration the representations submitted to them by
the joint deputation which attended this office on the 15th instant,
in opposition to the proposal of the Managers of the Kensington
and Chelsea School District, to establish a School at Marlsford
Lodge, Hammersmith.
I am directed to state that it appears to the Board that no sufficient
grounds were advanced to justify them in with-drawing the
sanction which they gave so far back as the 28th July last to the
acquisition by the Managers of the premises in question for the
purposes of a district School, the lease of which property has
already been executed.
The Board desire to assure the inhabitants of Hammersmith
that no danger is likely to arise from the opening: of the proposed
school, inasmuch as it forms no part of the scheme to receive and
maintain therein any child suffering from an infectious or contagious
disease, about whose power of communicating disease there
can be the slightest suspicion. It is therefore very improbable
that there will be any risk of the spread of disease in the neighbourhood
of the School.
Moreover each of the parishes comprised in the School district
has a separate Infirmary for the special treatment of the sick poor,
and consequently there will be no inducement to the Guardians of
those parishes to send sick children to the proposed school. If any
child should after admission require active medical treatment for
more than two or three days, such child will be at once discharged
and removed to the infirmary of the parish to which it may be
chargeable.
The Board desire me to point out that the building proposed to
be utilised as a school is situated about the middle of the land which
the Managers have acquired and is thus wholly detached from the
neighbouring buildings.
I am, Sir,
Your obedieut Servent,
J. F. Rotten,
Assistant Secretary.
The Board has taken no further action in the matter.
Hospital for Infectious Diseases.
A letter having been received from the London Fever Hospital,
informing the Board that in consequence of the great demands upon
the accommodation of the Hospital for patients, it had been decided
that no more cases of fever should be admitted into the
Hospital upon theordersof Vestries or District Boards,it was referred
to a Special Committee of the whole Board to proceed at once to
obtain a suitable site for a Hospital for the reception of cases of
infectious diseases occurring in this District