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VI
All the cases sent to Hospital were first visited by one of the District
Burgeons, and were frequently attended for some time prior to their
removal. Tho total number of patients attended amounted to 95/5—tho
deaths during tho same period being 407.
It sometimes happened that patients, after having an Order for Removal
to tho Hospital, refused to go. When this was the case 1 visited them,
and, by persuasion, generally obtained their consent. In one instance,
however, I had to apply to the Police Magistrate for a Compulsory Older
of Removal under tho Public Heulth Act, of which the following is a
copy:—
SAINT MATTIIKW, BETHNAL GREEN.
I, Thomas Sarvis, of Bethnal Green Road, in the County of Middlesex, Medical
Officer of Health for the Parish of Saint Matthew, Bethnal Green, being a duly qualified
Medical Practitioner, hereby certify that Robert Hoy, of 20, New Nichol Street, in the
said Parish, is suffering from Small Pox, a contagious and infectious disease, and is without
proper accommodation.
THOMAS SARV1S, M.D., M.R.C.S.L.
350, Bethnal Green Road,
February 7, 1871.
Middlesex
to wit. J
WORSHIP STREET POLICE COURT.
WHEREAS, it has been certified to me, Henry Jeffreys Bushby, one of
the Magistrates of the Police Courts of the Metropolis, silting at the Worship
Street Police Court, in the Metropolitan Police District, and County of
Middlesex, by Thomas Sarvis, of Bethnal Green Road, in the County of
Middlesex, Medical Officer of Health of the Parish of Saint Matthew, Bethnal
Green, in the County of Middlesex, a legally qualified Medical Practitioner,
that Robert Hoy, of No. 20, New Nichol Street, in the said Parish, is suffering
from a contagious and infectious disorder, namely, Small Pox, and that
the said Robert Hoy is without proper accommodation; and it appears to
me, on the oath of the said Thomas Sarvis, that the consent of the superintending
body of the Small Pox Asylum, at Homerton, within the Metropolitan
District, to receive the said Robert Hoy has been obtained; Now, I
do hereby direct the removal of the said Robert Hoy to the said Small Pox
Asylum, at the cost of the Nuisance Authority.
Dated this 7th day of February, One thousand eight hundred and seventyone
H. J. BUSHBY.