HH62/2/LANARK/48

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[Page] 48

MIDDLE WARD.

PART I.
THE matters which have chiefly engaged my attention
in the Middle Ward since my appointment in May,1891,
until the end of the year are -
(a) Hospital Accommodation.
(b) Disinfection.
(c) House Accommodation.
(d) Water Supply.
(e) Drainage.
(f) Regulations for Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milkshops.
(g) Infectious Disease Notification Act.
(h) Pollution of Rivers.
(i) Organisation of Returns of Births and Deaths.

Hospital Accommodation. - To the Committee ap-
pointed to consider this question I presented two reports
- the first dealing with the existing hospital accommodation
in the district of the Middle Ward, with map showing
position of the various hospitals and the localities for which
they are available; and the second dealing mainly with
various schemes for providing hospitals on a more complete
scale.
In the first it was shown that in the Middle Ward there
are seven hospitals available for cases of infectious disease,
of which two - viz., those at Blantyre and Bellshill - are
under the sole control of the District Committee; while in
the other five the Local Authorities, prior to the formation
of the County Council, had formed joint-hospitals with the
Burghs of Airdrie, Coatbridge, Hamilton, Motherwell, and
Wishaw. The condition generally of the hospitals was
described, and the number of beds available for the land-