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appointed Mr. Putterill, Mr. Scheib and Mr. Walton
as such delegates. The Conference passed the following
resolutions:—
1 . That a communication be addressed to the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, strongly urging that Board to take steps to
immediately open the vacant beds of the Gore Farm Hospital,
at Darenth, for the purpose of providing the temporary accommodation
required by the London Local Authorities for the
cases of Scarlet Fever urgently requiring removal from the
crowded families and houses in which they are spreading the
disease.
2.—That, in the opinion of this Conference, the Authorities
making the rate to raise the funds for the requirements of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board should be entitled to be directly
and adequately represented upon that Board.
3.—That the President of the Local Government Board be
asked to receive a deputation in support of the foregoing Resolutions.
4.—That a copy of the foregoing Resolutions be forwarded to
the Local Government Board, the Metropolitan Asylums Board,
and the several Vestries and District Boards of the Metropolis
who have appointed Delegates to attend this Conference, and
that each of those Vestries and District Boards be asked to
appoint one Representative to attend the proposed deputation to
the President of the Local Government Board.
The Vestry approved the resolutions passed by
the Conference, and appointed Mr. Putterill as
their delegate on the proposed deputation. The
President of the Local Government Board, however,
declined to receive the Deputation.
Premature Discharge of Patients from Hospitals
—The Vestry have had before them a letter
from the Metropolitan Asylums Board, forwarding
report on the subject of infectious disease alleged
to arise from the premature discharge of patients
from their hospitals. Tho Report states, inter alia,
that 106 cases were recorded during the two years
1893 and 1894 of the outbreak of illness in households
after the return home of recovered patients