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21st October, 1895.
Dear Sir,
Re Hospital Accommodation for Fever Patients.
Adverting to your letter of 11th July last, asking this Vestry to arrange for preference
being given for the removal to the Board's Hospitals of those patients who, as a consequence
of their surroundings and conditions of life, are most in need of Hospital treatment;
I am directed by the Vestry of this Parish to state that from a report of their Medical Officer
it appears great difficulty is experienced by the Sanitary Officials in getting accommodation in
the Board's Hospitals for even very urgent cases, without great delay, and as a consequence,
the Vestry are receiving constant complaints from the parishioners; and to express the hope
that the Managers will take into their serious consideration the immediate necessity of
providing further accommodation for urgent cases, and thus prevent the risks attending the
long delay in removals from this Parish to the Board's Hospitals.
I am, dear Sir,
Yours faithfully,
(Signed) JAMES J. STOKES,
Clerk to the Vestry.
The Clerk,
Metropolitan Asylums Board.
To which the following reply was received:-
The Metropolitan Asylums Board,
Norfolk House, Norfolk Street.
London, W.C.,
29th October, 1895.
James J. Stokes, Esq.,
Vestry Clerk,
Rotherhithe Vestry.
Dear Sir,
I submitted to the Managers at their meeting on Saturday last your letter of the 21st
inst., regarding the need of further accommodation for fever patients.
The Managers are fully alive to the urgency of this question, and have done everything
that is possible to extend the accommodation existing in the present hospitals.
You are doubtless aware that another hospital is in course of erection, and in fact
nearing completion; a second has been begun; and a third will be begun very shortly.
Yours faithfully,
T. DUNCOMBE MANN,
Clerk to the Board.