§ MR. WATNEYasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether he is aware that ten acres of land adjoining the Now Cross Road, Hatcham, has been bought by the Metropolitan Asylums Board for the purpose of erecting temporary hospitals in the event of small-pox or any epidemic fever again occurring in the Metropolis; and, whether he will take any steps to prevent a hospital of this description being placed in the midst of such a densely-populated neighbourhood?
§ MR. STANSFELD,in reply, said, about nine acres of land adjoining the New Cross Road, Hatcham, had been purchased by the Metropolitan Asylums Board for the purpose of erecting, in case it should be needed, a temporary small-pox hospital. The site was conveniently contiguous to the population who were likely to require such a hospital, and at the same time it was sufficiently isolated to prevent the spread of contagion. According to the information he had received, the site was admirably adapted for the purpose for which it had been acquired, and it had been favourably reported on by the Inspector of the Local Government Board.