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resident in the county, or any part of the county, or in
the county borough, or any class of such dependants,
and in such case the arrangements to be made by the
committee shall include arrangements for the treatment
of such dependants, and the sums available for
sanatorium benefit shall be applicable to the purpose.
Approved societies or Local Health Committees are to be
empowered (Clause 20) to subscribe to hospitals and other
charitable institutions, and to the support of district nurses, and
to appoint and pay nurses to visit and nurse insured persons.
And by Clause 21 town councils and district councils are to be
empowered to contribute to certain expenditures on medical
and sanatorium benefits.
One of the most drastic of the clauses of the Act is the
sixty-second, which provides that, where it is alleged by the
Insurance Commissioners or by any approved society or local
Health Committee that the sickness which has taken place
among any insured persons being, in the case where the
allegation is made by a society or committee, persons for the
administration of whose sickness and disablement benefits
the society or committee is responsible, is excessive, and that
such excess is due to the conditions or nature of employment
of such persons, or to bad housing or insanitary conditions in
any locality, or to an insufficient or contaminated water supply,
or to the neglect on the part of any person or authority to
observe or enforce the provisions of any Act relating to the
health of workers in factories, workshops, mines, quarries, or
other industries, or relating to public health, or the housing of
the working classes, or any regulations made under any such
Act, or to observe or enforce any public health precautions, the
Commissioners or the society or committee making such allegation
may send to the person or authority alleged to be in
default a claim for the payment of the amount or any extra
expenditure alleged to have been incurred by reason of such