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RECEPTION OF CASES OF WHOOPING COUGH.
The Board of Management, of the Metropolitan Asylums District have, in pursuance
of the Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, and the Acts amending and extending that Act
from time to time, provided hospitals for the reception and treatment of persons suffering
from certain classes of infectious disease.
Subject to such regulations and instructions as the Local Government Board may
from time to time prescribe, the above mentioned Board of Management are empowered
by Section 80 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, to admit into a hospital
provided by the Managers any person who is not a pauper, and who is reasonably
believed to be suffering from any of the diseases specified in the Section of the Act
referred to.
The Local Government Board, deeming it expedient that provision should be
made with regard to the admission to such hospitals of persons (not being paupers)
suffering from Whooping Cough, have, by virtue of their powers, prescribed the
following regulations and restrictions by which persons may be admitted into any of
the hospitals maintained by the Metropolitan Asylums Board:—
Article I.—The Managers shall not receive into any of their hospitals a person
to whom this Order applies unless, in their opinion, they have more accommodation
available than is required for the reception of the pauper patients suffering from
Whooping Cough, whom the Managers are authorised to receive.
Article II.—Except as hereinafter provided, a person to whom this Order applies
shall not be admitted by the Managers into any of their hospitals, except on the
recommendation of the Medical Officer of Health for the district of the Sanitary
Authority for the execution of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, in which the
person is residing at the time when the question of his removal to hospital arises.
The recommendation of the Medical Officer of Health shall in every case be sent
to the Managers, and shall be accompanied by such information respecting the
circumstances of the case as the Managers may reasonably require.
Provided that the Clerk to the Managers may, if he receives general authority in
that behalf from the Managers, direct that a person to whom this Order applies shall
be admitted into a hospital of the Managers otherwise than on the recommendation of a
Medical Officer of Health, if, in the Clerk's opinion, the admission of such person is
desirable on the ground of sudden or urgent necessity, or for some other special or
exceptional reason.
The Clerk shall report to the Hospitals Committee of the Managers at their next
ordinary meeting the name of any person admitted to a hospital of the Managers on his
direction, and the grounds on which his direction for admission of such person was
given.
Article III.—If it becomes necessary to determine the priority in which persons
to whom this Order applies shall be admitted to any hospital, the Managers shall have
regard to each person's need of isolation in the interests of the public health so far as
the same can be ascertained from the information sent to them by the Medical Officer
of Health in pursuance of Article II. of this Order, with the recommendations relating
to the admission to hospitals of persons to whom this Order applies.