Correspondence and Evidence in Complaint of Refusal of Admission to Reception House (Aug 1900)
- Reference:GB 243 D-HE5/2/21
- Dates of Creation:1900
- Language of Material:English
- Physical Description:1 file Typed document
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Papers in an envelope with the title as given (not retained). Includes: rough notes of questions to ask about the case with answers on Sanitary Chambers headed paper; note of numbers sleeping in the Reception House 15th June 1900; memorandum to the Medical Officer from Peter Fyfe, Chief Sanitary Inspector, 18th June 1900, on the numbers currently being accommodated in the Weaver Street Reception House and the resulting overcrowding; copy of remit from the Health Committee asking for the refusal of admission of smallpox quarantine patients by the South York Street reception house to be investigated with a letter from John Lindsay, Police Department, on the same, 31st July; letter from Lindsay again requesting a report and enclosing a letter from solicitors suing for damages, 18th August; letter from John Knight to Dr Chalmers giving Mrs Harper's account of events regarding her refusal of admission, 20th August; letter from Lindsay to Chalmers requesting his presence at a Sub-Committee of investigation, 21st August; letter from Lindsay to Chalmers attaching minutes complaining of the Medical Officer of Health's excuses for non-attendance, 29th August; printed copies of minutes, one annotated and with the Medical Officer of Health's report attached; report on refusal to admit persons from a small-pox house, 23rd August; and evidence of the Inquiry, 28th August. Also included printed articles 'Sewer Ventilation Notes' by William Brown, 1900 and 'The Plague in Europe' from new journal The Physician and Surgeon.
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