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other things, that the Companies shall not, without the express
consent of the London County Council, place any electric line
above ground, along, over or across any street; but it does
not in any other respect meet the views of this Board as
expressed in its communication to the Board of Trade. The
following streets have been scheduled for the compulsory
laying down of wires within two years, viz.:—Borough High
Street, Blackfriars Road and Southwark Street.
Metropolitan
Board of
Works.
In July also the Board, on the motion of Mr. Meikle, passed
the following resolution, copies of which were forwarded to
the late Metropolitan Board of Works and to the Vestries and
District Boards of the Metropolis:—
"That this Board, while approving of the action of the Metropolitan
Board of Works in dismissing Messrs. Robertson, Goddard, and
Goddard, jun., considers it of vital importance that an explanation
should be demanded of the Chairman of that Board as to
the reason why the proved malpractices of several of its Members
and Officials could by any possibility have been allowed to pass
without immediate detection."
Zymotic
Diseases.
The Board, as stated in the last Annual Report, resolved to
present a Memorial to the Local Government Board, a copy of
which was set out on page 17, praying that that Board would
promote a Bill in Parliament in order to legalise the reception
into the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board of cases
of measles and of diphtheria in like manner and under the same
restrictions as prevail in regard to fever, small pox, and other
forms of zymotic disease. In July the Memorial was forwarded
to the Local Government Board; and, in October, a letter was
received from that Board adverting to the Memorial and the
accompanying letter, and enclosing, for the information of this
Board, copy of one addressed by them to the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, stating that, pending the settlement of the
legal question involved, the Managers had determined to admit
cases of diphtheria into the hospitals under their control.
In November the Medical Officer called the attention of the
Sanitary Committee to the fact that measles was still prevalent
to a large extent in the district, and expressed an opinion that,
owing to the want of power to isolate such cases, the disorder
might again assume an epidemic form. He also called the