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1 MARCH, 1893.
your Committee considered the question of the removal of
non-pauper patients referred by your Board.
That it appears from the Report of your Medical Officer
that the removal of these cases has to take place at all hours
of the night and day, including Sundays, as any delay in some
cases might result in most serious consequences; and that,
except on Sundays, if the removal takes place between 9 a.m.
and 8 p.m., communication is made by telephone to the chief
offices of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and after that
time by telegraph to the Ambulance Stations, and that on
Sundays it is always made by telegraph to the Ambulance
Stations.
If the Vestry undertake the duty, it will be necessary to
provide a telephone, and one or more persons must always
be on duty. This would involve a very serious expense.

Or an average of £22 per annum.
That the extra expense for the current year has been owing
to the outbreak of fever.
That taking all things into consideration, your Committee
are of opinion that in no way would an improvement be
effected by the Vestry undertaking the work, and beg accordingly
to recommend—That the present system be adhered
to of allowing the Relieving Officers 4/- per case for the
removal of non-pauper cases of infectious disease.
(10) That your Medical Officer of Health proposes to represent
to the London County Council an area comprising property
in Knott Street and other adjoining streets as an unhealthy
area, under part 1 of the Housing of the Working Classes
Act, 1890, and your Committee see no objection thereto.
(11) That Mr. F. H. Lyon, one of your Sanitary Inspectors, submitted
to your Committee the Certificates which he had
obtained; having passed the examinations of The Sanitary
Institute of competency in Sanitary Knowledge, and of The
Worshipful Company of Carpenters of Practical Sanitation
and Building.