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Memorandum of Agreement, made this
Fifteenth day of June, One Thousand Eight Hundred and
Ninety-Seven, Between The Mayor, Aldermen, and
Burgesses of the County Borough of West Ham, acting
as the Urban Sanitary Authority of the said Borough
(hereinafter referred to as "The Corporation") of the one
part, and The Urban District Council for the District of
acting as the Sanitary
Authority of the said District (hereinafter referred to as
"The Council") of the other part.
Whereas the Corporation are erecting: at Dagenham, in the
Rural District of Romford, in the County of Essex, a Hospital for
the reception and treatment of Small-pox patients:
And whereas the Council, and six other Sanitary Authorities
of Districts adjoining or in the neighbourhood of the said Borough,
have requested the Corporation to extend and enlarge the said
Hospital now in course of construction, so as to accommodate and
receive the Small-pox cases arising in the District of the Council, and
in the said adjoining Districts, and thereby to avoid the necessity
and expense of providing and maintaining separate Hospitals :
whereas the Corporation have consented, subject to the
sanction of the Local Government Board being obtained to their
borrowing the sums necessary to carry out the required enlargement
of their Hospital, and are willing to receive therein cases of Small-pox
arising in the District of the Council, for the consideration and upon
the terms and conditions hereinafter appearing :
It inn, therefore, it is agreed by and between the parties hereto
as follows, that is to say
(1) When, and so soon as this Agreement and others of the
same tenour made with the above-mentioned six