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Every succeeding year now your district is larger and
your population increases, and more houses built, more need
is felt for an Isolation Hospital. Several of these infectious
cases would have been less in number, if the first case in a
family could have been sent away. Your Board are I know
full well, hoping and trying to get a share in the Tolworth
Hospital, but as this still seems in the far distance, it would
be well in the meantime, if you could take a cottage or
make other provision, for a hospital of your own, which
could be done at less expense to the ratepayers, now your
district is so much larger.
A great many would gladly pay any reasonable sum to
send their friends into a well conducted hospital, and not
incur the heavy expense, as well as that of nursing, at their
own houses.
These payments would materially lessen the expense of
maintenance.
With reference to the Notification diseases Act:—
The medical men attending an infectious disease always
notify the same, but the householders often neglect to
do so.
The public don't yet understand that a householder is
as much required to notify an infectious disease as the
doctor in attendance.
I would suggest to you to adopt the "Infectious
Disease Prevention Act" which gives us far more power to
grapple with infectious diseases. The Kingston Rural
Sanitary Authority adopted it in 1891, and it applied to
Coombe and Maiden. New Maiden, however, has never
done so.
It would be very little expense to do so.
The advantages are fully set out in a circular from the
Local Government Board, dated November, 1890.
1 have had one case of overcrowding during the year,
which was soon rectified, by which proceedings became
unnecessary.
I now come to the Sanitary work done during the
year:—
Mr. Davison reports that 34 new houses have been
built. 22 nuisances abated, 15 cesspools done away with, one
private road reformed, made up, and footpath kerbed, and
the ditch from Mr. Andrews to the Parish Church on the
east side of Coombe Road filled up.
I have myself made 209 visits besides visiting the
houses at Coombe, when taking the census of that ward.
Water supply:—
Cisterns have often been found dirtv, and wanting