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Modgen Hospital
Extension.
Unfortunately the two Authorities concerned in
this Hospital cannot agree as to the proportion of
expenses to be borne by each Authority for the
extension of the buildings and future administration of the extension.
At the February meeting of the Richmond Town Council the
following report was presented by the Special Committee appointed
for the consideration of this matter.
The Committee have had before them a letter dated the 13th June,
1905, from the Local Government Board enclosing copy of a letter
which the Board had received from the Heston and Isleworth Urban
District Council relative to the proposed extension of the Modgen
Joint Isolation Hospital, together with a copy of the Board's reply,
which reply is as follows:—
Local Government Board,
Whitehall, S.W.
13th, June, 1905.
Sir,—I am directed by the Local Government Board to
advert to your letter of the 26th ultimo, enclosing copy of
correspondence which have passed between the Urban District
Council of Heston and Isleworth and the Town Council of
Richmond relative to the proposed extension of the Modgen
Joint Isolation Hospital.
As regards the question at issue between the two Councils
as to the apportionment of the expenses, I am to suggest that
that the Councils should consider whether the difficulties could
not be removed by the adoption of the arrangement set out in
Section 17 of the Isolation Hospitals Act, 1893, according to
which the expenses would be divided into "Structural,"
"Establishment," and "Patients" expenses. The structural
expenses, i.e. the cost of the proposed extension, might be
divided equally between the two Districts, as the Urban
District Council conditionally propose, the establishment