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Your Committee have taken into consideration the question of
payment by the patients, or their friends, for treatment and
maintenance, but, as advised by your Vestry Clerk, it appears that
the Vestry possess no statutory power of recovering such cost.
Of the total number of 59 patients admitted, 5 have died, 11
have been discharged, and 43 remain.
For two patients the sum of £4 4s. each has been paid to the
Vestry for admission, but in the remaining 57 cases the friends,
when asked, stated that neither they nor the patients could afford
to pay.
From the nominal roll of the patients attached hereto, with
particulars as to their position, it will be seen that the patients and
their friends are, as usual in small pox epidemics, generally in
poor circumstances, although not a single patient admitted was in
receipt of Parish relief, except in one case of a girl sent from the
Workhouse Schools by the Guardians.
Your Committee recommend the Vestry to authorise the
continuance and maintenance of the Camp Hospital during the
vacation, the Committee to again report to the Vestry on the 7 th
of October next, no patients to be received after the 20th August,
1881, unless in the opinion of the Sanitary Committee it is desirable
that further admissions should take place
All which is submitted.
Vestry Offices,
5th August, 1881.
(Signed) JOHN LAMB,
Chairman, Sanitary Committee.