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desirable, in the interests of the public health, that provision should
be made for the reception of exceptional cases of measles into the
hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board on the certificate of the
Medical Officers of Health, in the same manner as cases of fever,
small pox and diphtheria.
Your Memorialists therefore humbly pray that your honourable
Board will be pleased to direct that similar arrangements
shall be made for the reception of cases of measles into the
hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, to those
which have already been made in regard to diphtheria;
and that any Bill which your honourable Board may
promote for obtaining the sanction of the legislature to the
reception of cases of diphtheria, measles may be included
And your Memorialists will ever pray, Ac."
Sealed with the Common Seal of the Board of Works for
the St. Saviour's District in the presence of
W. H. ATKINS,
Clerk of the Hoard.
21st December, 1888.
Main Roads.
On this subject a circular letter was, in the latter part of
October, received from the Vestry of Chelsea, inviting the
Board to appoint delegates to attend a conference to consider
the various clauses of the Local Government Act, 1888,
relating to the control and management of the highways of
the Metropolis, and the Board appointed Messrs. Baxter,
Bovvers and Sinclair. The conference took place at the Town
Hall, Chelsea, on Thursday, the 14th February, and the following
resolutions were passed:—
Resolved—
"(a) That, in the opinion of this Conference, the Vestries and District
Boards of the Metropolis, should make application to the County
Council for orders declaring those highways in their respective
districts which are means of communication between different
districts, or thoroughfares to railway stations, or which are used
largely by Metropolitan traffic, as opposed to local traffic, to be
Main Roads under the Highways' and Locomotives' (Amendment)
Act, 1878, and the Local Government (England and Wales) Act,
1888, and the Conference is further of opinion that the County
Council should make such orders accordingly."
"(6) That, in the opinion of this Conference, the Vestries and District
Boards of the Metropolis, should claim to retain the powers and
duties of maintaining and repairing main roads within their
district."
Subsequently, the question was considered by the Paving