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"not be removed, but that the healthy shall be
"removed from the same room in which the sick
"person is lying, the vestry or board shall cause
"the other inmates of such room to be removed
"to some convenient place of reception."
Again, in 1883 the Local Government Board,
in a Memorandum dated 25th August of that
year, issued the following instructions:—
"The Board desire that it should be clearly
"understood that, in the event of cholera
"prevailing in any particular district, the
"sanitary authority of that district would be
"called upon to make special provision of its
"own; firstly, of refuges, and, in the second
"place, of hospitals also should the moderate
"provision to which the managers of the
"Metropolitan Asylums Board must necessarily
"restrict themselves be exceeded
Coming down to more recent times, the
"Public Health (London) Act, 1891," gives
ample powers.