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authorities and agree, if possible, upon some united course of action,
with a view to checking the vast and increasing expenditure
of that Board.
Co-operative
Stores.
This Board also at the request of the Westminster Board of
Works, has appointed Messrs. Boulden & Chappell as delegates
to consider the subject of Crown Servants conducting trades,
and as the result of the labours of the Conference, the question
has been brought before the House of Commons, and a Select
Committee appointed to investigate the matter.
Water
Companies'
Charges
The Board, on the invitation of St. Martin's Vestry, has
appointed Messrs. Hale & Hideal as delegates to consider the
enormously increased charges of the Southwark and Vauxhall,
and other Water Companies, for water supplied by them, and a
Memorial has been presented to the Home Secretary praying
for inquirv.
Hospitals
or Infectious
Diseases.
Several communications having being received from Limehouse
and other Boards and Vestries of the Metropolis on the subject
of providing Hospital accommodation for persons suffering from
infectious disease, this Board appointed as delegates, Messrs.
Tuohn & Back, and Mr. Biancitt, its Medical Officer, to attend
a proposed Conference at the Cannon Street Hotel; after several
meetings, on 18th June, 1878, a resolution was passed as follows:—
That, in the opinion of this Conference, many almost insurmountable
obstacles present themselves to the carrying out by the Vestries and
District Boards of the Metropolis, of the powers conferred upon them
by Sect. 87 of the Sanitary Act, 1866; and it is further of opinion,
that it is desirable that provision should be made by Act of Parliament
for one Authority, acting for the whole Metropolis, to provide
Hospital accommodation for non-paupers suffering from contagious
disease.
This Board concurred in the above resolution, and expressed
an opinion that the authority so proposed to bo constituted,
should be us far as possible, representative. Subsequently a
Memorial was prepared and presented to the Home Secretary,
in accordance with the views expressed in the above resolution.