View report page

47
of Charing-cross Hospital shall set apart
sixteen beds, in a convenient part or parts of
their respective Hospitals, and shall receive
therein such patients' (herein called inpatients),
being sick and otherwise qualified
according to the provisions hereof, as shall
be sent by the Trustees with in-patients'
orders as hereinafter provided.
"II. The said Governors respectively shall also
receive and supply with advice and medicine
as out-patients all poor persons resident in
the said several Parishes who shall be sent
by the Trustees with out-patients' or-ders at
the customary times for the attendance of
out-patients.
"III. The Secretaries of the said Hospitals respectively
shall give immediate notice to the Clerk
of all vacancies in the number of the inpatients,
and of any person being rejected as
an in-patient.
"IV. All in-patients requiring medical or surgical aid,
and being fit cases for Hospital treatment,
shall be received by both Hospitals indiscriminately,
whether suffering from contagious
or infectious disorders or not (smallpox
alone being excepted), and shall be
treated in all respects in the same manner as
the other patients received into the Hospitals
respectively."
The orders for admission as in-patients or for treatment
as out-patients in the Hospitals, are granted by an Order
Committee, consisting of five Trustees, one member of the
Committee being elected from each Parish interested.