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sanitary matters under the Act. Some delay has taken
place in the approval, by the Local Government Board, of
the Bye-laws framed under the Act by the Council and by
the Local Authorities; but there is no doubt that such approval
will be obtained very shortly, and that the new Byelaws
will soon be in force. The proceedings of the Board
under the Act arc summarised in the Table in the
Medical Officer's Report.
The Board have, during the year, granted several certificates
of water supply to new houses, as required by the
48th sect. of the Act.
Proposed Fever Hospital, Hither Green.
On the 3rd March last (1893) the Works and General
Purposes Committee of the Board were informed that the
Metropolitan Asylums Board had under consideration a proposal
for acquiring land in Hither Green Lane, at the junction
with George Lane (Wilderness House and Hither Green Lodge
Estates), for the purpose of establishing a Fever Hospital.
The matter had been previously mentioned at the meeting
of the Blackheath and Lewisham Local Committee on
the 28th Febrnary, but that was the first intimation of the
proposal which had in any way reached this Board. The
Works Committee were informed that the matter would be
dealt with by the Asylums Board at their meeting to be held
on the 4th March, and deeming it to be an urgent matter,
the Committee addressed a special letter to the Asylums
Board, stating the reasons which the Committee thought
should prevent the site from being selected for a Fever
Hospital, and expressing a hope that the Managers would
not proceed with the proposal.
At the following meeting of the Board, 8th March, they
unanimously approved and confirmed the action of the Committee,
and resolved that, in the event of the Asylums Board
deciding to persevere with the purchase of the site, the Local
Government Board should be requested not to sanction the
same without first holding an enquiry at which any person