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proportion of the patients received into the Hospitals of the Managers
belonged to a class above that of paupers, and that adequate
accommodation for the isolation and treatment of epidemic infectious
diseases in the Metropolis did not exist, only five out of thirty of
the various Vestries and District Boards, who are the authorities
at present charged with the duty, having been able to make the
necessary provision, and suggesting that such provision could be
best made by one central authority for the whole of London; this
Board, acting under the advice of its Sanitary Committee and
Medical Officer, resolved, that having regard to the disadvantages
and difficulties in the way of providing adequate local accommodation
of the kind referred to, separately for each Parish or District,
the Metropolitan Asylum Board should, in the opinion of this
Board, be constituted the central and sole authority to make provision
for the reception and treatment from all classes of the
population of persons suffering from infectious disease, and that
the present law should be amended accordingly.
posed New
street.
A Parliamentary Plan and Notices were, in November last, deposited
of the "Southwark Bridge Road and Great Dover Street
Communication," described as follows:—"A New Street commencing
in the Southwark Bridge Road near its junction with Peter
Street, in the Parishes of St. Saviour and St. George-the-Martyr,
Southwark, or one of them, a,nd continued thence across Queen
Street and Duke Street to Red Cross Street, and further extended
by the widening of Mint Street, partly on its north-east and partly
on its south-west sides, and terminating in Blackman Street at its
junction with Mint Street, in the Parish of St. George-the-Martyr,
Southwark, all in the Parishes of St. Saviour and St. George-theMartyr,
Southwark, in the County of Surrey." This Board, as stated
in its last Annual Report, has cordially approved of the project,
considering that the formation of such a thoroughfare would tend to
the relief of London Bridge by diverting a portion of the traffic in
a new direction, and supply a means of communication with the
Borough, at present greatly needed. A Bill for authorizing the
same is now before Parliament, and is expected shortly to receive
the roval assent.