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The Metropolitan Asylums Board,
Norfolk House, Norfolk Street,
London, W.C.,
11th July, 1895.
Dear Sir,
Hospital Accommodation for Fever Patients.
I regret to inform you that the available accommodation at the Hospitals of this Board
for patients suffering from scarlet fever and diphtheria is nearly exhausted, and that new
cases can only be admitted as vacancies are occasioned by discharges and deaths.
I have therefore to express the hope that instructions may be given by your Board (or
Vestry) to the Officers concerned to arrange for preference being given to the removal to the
Board's Hospitals of these patients who, as a consequence of their surroundings and
conditions of life, are most in need of Hospital treatment.
I am also to ask your Board (or Vestry) to be good enough to instruct all Officers, who
make applications for the removal of patients, to ascertain whether their requests are complied
with or not, and when they have not been complied with, to repeat their applications day by
day so long as their patients continue in a fit condition for removal, and until the removal is
effected, and to add a statement of the circumstances which render the removal of the cases
urgent.
Yours faithfully,
T. DUNCOMBE MANN,
Clerk to the Board.
To T. J. Stokes, Esq.,
The Clerk to the Vestry of Rotherhithe.
The suggestions made by the Board being already in practice in the Parish no action
was taken thereon.
On 15th October, 1895, the Medical Officer of Health called the attention of the Vestry
to the delay in securing admission into the Board's Hospitals, and by direction of the Vestry
the following letter was sent to the Metropolitan Asylums Board:-