| AdminHistory | The Health Sub-Committee was appointed prior to November 1874, but the minutes preceding this date are currently missing. The committee comprised of five members of the main committee. Its main health functions were to administer the Corporation hospitals at Winson Green and Little Bromwich, and sanatoria at Yardley Road and Salterley Grange. It also took responsibility for inspecting canal boats and other property for nuisance value; analysed water, foodstuffs and the milk supply to ensure the quality and it being free from harmful bacteria; reported on smoke emissions from factories and monitored the spread of infectious diseases such as smallpox, scarlet fever, tuberculosis and diphtheria. After November 1911, the sub-committee continued as the Public Health Sub-Committee of the Public Health and Housing Committee (see BCC/1/BM/2).
The Yardley Road (Little Bromwich) Hospital Sub-Sub-Committee may have been the successor to the Hospitals Accommodation Sub-Committee of 1893 (see BCC/1/AR/4). It was appointed in March 1894, and consisted of four members. Its function was to consider the construction and other general business relating to the building of the Yardley Road (later Little Bromwich) Hospital.
The Lodge Hill Road Hospital Extension Sub-Sub-Committee was appointed in March 1895, and consisted of six members. Its purposes was to consider the construction and other business relating to the building of the new extension at the Lodge Hill Road Hospital (Winson Green) (see also BCC/1/AR/1/1/12). |