THE FEVER HOSPITAL.

Evening Star, Issue 4013, 6 January 1876, Page 3

THE FEVER HOSPITAL.

Messrs Stout, M.P.C., Langlands, M'Neil, Lawson, and Begg this afternoon waited upon his Worship the Mayor with regard to the Fever Hospital. Mr Stout presented a largely signed memorial protesting against a portion of the Town Belt being used for the purpose of a Fever Hospital. He said that when the Belt was vested in the. Corporation, it was understood that it was to be used solely for purposes of recreation. As a matter of law, the Corporation had no; power to take part of a Corporation reserve, and appropriate it to any other purposes than that for which it was set apart. The Mayor asked what the deputation would have done in a case of emergency, like the present ? Mr Langlands replied that a temporary hospital might have been erected. What the deputation protested against was a portion of the Town Belt being alienated permanently for a Fever Hospital. The memorial contained the names of all thq City representatives in the General Assembly, the past representatives, ex-Superintendents, and of a large number of influential persons The Mayor remarked that the Council had acted with the greatest promptitude in trying to stamp out the disease. The house in which the disease had broken out was immediately quarantined, but when it was found that the disease was spreading, and that to erect a large temporary building would prove a very expensive matter, it was decided to put up the hospital in question. He, however, first ascertained from the Medical Officer that there would not be the slightest danger of the disease being carried into the suburbs or into the City by the wind; and in order to fortify itself the Council wrote to Mr Smith, its solicitor, on the subject, who replied that the Council, i.e., the Local Board of Health, was fully empowed to erect a building on the Town Belt, and could successfully resist any opposition thereto. Personally he would bow to no one in his endeavors to get the Town Belt preserved, and made an ornament to the 6*ty. The deputation assured his Worship that they were not finding fault with the Council for its action in endeavoring to arrest the spread of the disease ; indeed it was deserving. of praise for what it had *done. What they protested against was a portion of the town belt being permanently used for a Fever Hospital. Eventually his Worship promised to wait on the Superintendent and see if the’Government would build an hospital elsewhere for them; or else have the present building removed to another site.