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Of these 741 cases, 347, or not quite half, have
been admitted into hospital.
There is, I fear, some misapprehension as to
patients being removed to Isolation Hospitals.
Under the Public Health Act of 1875, section 124,
it states "Where any suitable hospital or place for
the reception of the sick is provided within the district
of a Local Authority, any person who is suffering
from any dangerous infectious disorder, and is
without proper lodging and accommodation, may, on
a certificate signed by a legally qualified medical
practitioner, and with the consent of the superintending
body of such hospital or place, be removed,
by order of any Justice, to such hospital or place, at
the cost of the Local Authority; and any person so
suffering who is lodged in any common lodging.
house, may, with the like consent on a like certificate,
be so removed by order of the Local Authority."