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Medical Superintendents are not prepared to repeat; they also used the Gore Farm
(Small-pox) Convalescent Hospital, which there fortunately seemed no prospect of their
requiring for its proper purpose.
In 1893 the normal accommodation was increased, by the erection of the Fountain
Hospital at Tooting, to about 3,000 beds, and a portion only of Gore Farm could be used.
In 1894 all applicants were admitted.
T. D. M.
11th December, 1895.
On 21st January, 1896, the Vestry considered a letter from the Vestry Clerk of
St. Pancras, transmitting copy resolution forwarded by that Vestry to the Local
Government Board as under:—
"That the Local Government Board be asked to hold an enquiry and take
evidence as to the present administration of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board, such enquiry also to include its constitution, the mode of election,
and scope of duties, its largely increasing yearly expenditure, and its
failure to provide for the requirements of the Local Sanitary Authorities."
Resolved—That similar action be taken by this Vestry.
Public Conveniences.
There being no conveniences in the Parish for women, the Vestry appointed the undermentioned
gentlemen as Delegates to wait upon the Bermondsey Vestry, with the view
their joining this Vestry in the expense of the construction and mainteance of an
underground convenience for men and women on the old Millpond site, in lieu of the present
Urinal in Southwark Park Boad, near the "Queen Charlotte p.h., viz.:-
Mr. Vice-chairman Bisley, Mr. Churchwarden F. T. Talbot, and Messrs. Bealey,
J. Brown, Moss, Mullenger, Stuart.