Annual report of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, 1900 : (in two volumes). Vol. 1.
- Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England)
- Date:
- 1901
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Annual report of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, 1900 : (in two volumes). Vol. 1. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Erysipelas* London The London Government Act, 1899, came into operation on Govern- the 1st November, 1900. Under its provisions the 44 vestries ment Act. and district boards (the sanitary authorities for London) have ceased to exist, and in their place have been formed 28 separate munici¬ palities, exclusive of the Corporation of the City of London. For the purpose of preserving statistical continuity, the notifications of infectious diseases made under the provisions of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, have been entered under the headings of the old sanitary areas up to the end of the year. 4. Although not a rating authority, the Managers are interested ofSGovenb^ see]'ng that national property in London should contribute its property Ltir s^are to the local expenditure of the Metropolis. They therefore joined with the London County Council and other public bodies in presenting petitions to the House of Commons in support of the Council’s proposals for abolishing the exemption of Government property from legal assessment. 5. The Managers are not authorised to admit into their hospitals persons suffering from erysipelas, but they may and do use their ambulances for the conveyance of such cases to and from other places. Several of the boards of guardians advocated the admission of such patients into the Managers’ hospitals; but the proposal did not meet with genera] support. Tuber- 6. The success which is said to have attended the open-air cuiosis. treatment of tuberculosis could not fail to arrest the attention of the metropolitan boards of guardians, in whose infirmaries a large number of phthisical patients are constantly in residence. On the suggestion of the Local Government Board, a conference of the metropolitan boards of guardians was convened in duly to consider the advisability of special accommodation and treatment being provided, under the management and control of a metropolitan authority, for the treatment by open-air methods of phthisical patients chargeable to the Metropolis. The Managers were invited to the conference; but being of opinion that the question was one which should be determined by the guardians alone, they did not depute delegates to attend the conference. No official intimation of the conclusion at which the conference arrived has been received by the Managers. 7. The apprehension of plague led to the Managers being desired to make provision for the accommodation and treatment of any cases which might arise in London. It will be reassuring to the public to know that arrangements were immediately made which it is believed would have enabled the Managers to deal with any outbreak which might have occurred. Plague.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30300198_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
