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As the Metropolitan Asylums Board appear to have
adopted the practice of treating all smallpox patients in
buildings outside the metropolis, the earlier of the amending
Acts does not apply, and the Vestry have therefore suggested
to the Local Government Board the desirability of their
making an order declaring that all the hospitals belonging to
the Asylums Board (irrespective of situation) are within
a convenient distance of the districts of the various Metropolitan
nuisance authorities, or that some provision may be
made for meeting any difficulty likely to arise under the
existing law in the Bill which it is understood the President
of the Local Government Board is about to introduce
for amending the law relating to the public health.
ST. JAMES'S DWELLINGS.
This property continues to be well let, although necessarily
there is a frequent change of tenants.
The building having been continuously occupied for
three years, the external iron and wood work was painted
and other works carried out during the summer, at a cost
.of £94 13s. 3d.
The Vestry have had under consideration the desirability
of erecting a laundry on the roof of the dwellings, but
having regard to all the circumstances of the case, including
the contiguity of the public washhouses in Dufour's
Place, have decided to take no action in the matter.
During the year the Vestry have been able to invest a
further sum of £400 towards replacing the capital on the
expiration of the leases.
A copy of the Accounts of the Trust Fund will be found
on pages 150 and 151.