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Memorandum of Agreement made the
day of 1905 BETWEEN THE MAYOR ALDERMEN
AND BURGESSES OF THE COUNTY BOROUGH OF WEST
HAM acting as the Urban Sanitary Authority of the said County
Borough (hereinafter referred to as the Corporation) of the one part
and
acting as the Sanitary Authority of the
said District (hereinafter referred to as "The Council" of the other
part WHEREAS the Corporation have erected 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 several other Sanitary Authorities of Districts
adjoining or in the neighbourhood of the said County Borough have
requested the Corporation to 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 and the Corporation are willing to receive cases of
Small-pox arising in the District of the Council for the consideration
and upon the terms and conditions hereinafter appearing NOW
therefore it is agreed by and between the parties hereto as follows that
is to say:—
1. The Corporation will during the pendency of this Agreement
admit into Dagenham Hospital all cases of Small-pox
arising in the District of the Council notified to the
Medical Officer of Health of the Corporation (on forms
supplied by the Corporation) and sent to the Hospital
by order of the Council or of the Medical Officer of the
Council or of a Justice under the provisions of Section
124 of the Public Health Act 1875 with the consent
required by that Section and the Corporation will provide
for the treatment and maintenance of Patients
coming from the District of the Council in all respects
on an equality with those admitted into the Hospital
from the Borough or the other Districts above referred
to.