[1] In September 1866 , the President of the Poor Law Board, Mr Gathorne Hardy, instructed two doctors , Dr W O Markham and Mr Uvedale Corbett, to visit all of London workhouses with a view to procuring information which might assist him in drafting new legislation for the reform of workhouse infirmaries.
[1] There was a particular concern that those suffering from infectious fevers and smallpox, and the insane, should be removed from the workhouses and treated in separate hospitals.
c. 6) instructed that all unions and parishes across London were combined for the reception and relief of the poor suffering from fever , smallpox or insanity under the Metropolitan Asylums District and its board of management.
The MAB purchased land and commenced building asylums at Leavesden in Hertfordshire and Caterham in Surrey , and small pox and fever hospitals at Haverstock Hill in Hampstead , Homerton in East London and Stockwell in South London[3] During its lifetime, MAB set up around forty institutions.
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