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A.
Extract from the "Poor Law Act, 1879."
Section 15.—The Metropolitan Asylums Board may, from time to time,
with the approval of the Local Government Board, contract with any
local authority in the metropolis acting in the execution of the Nuisances
Removal Act, 1855, and the Acts amending the same, for the reception
and maintenance in any hospital belonging to or under the management
of such Board, or any person suffering from any dangerous infectious
disorder within the district of any such local authority, and any person
received into an hospital by virtue of any such contract under this section
shall be deemed to be maintained in such hospital by the local authority
with whom the contract is made.
Any expenses incurred oy a local authority for the maintenance of
any person under this section, shall be deemed to be due from such person
to the local authority, and may be recovered by the local authority from
him, or from his representatives, at any time within six months after
his discharge from such hospital.
B.
Extract from the Special Report of the General Purposes Committee
of the Asylums Board on the Question of the Reception and
Treatment of Non-Pauper Patients at the Managers'
Hospitals.
(a) That such provision could be best made in a comprehensive and
systematic manner by one Central Authority acting for the whole
metropolis, not only for vauper patients, but for other classes desirous of
hospital accommodation.
(b) That such Central Authority should not be merely a Department of
Poor Law Administration, but should have the pavers of the Sanitary
Acts conferred upon it.
(c) That either the Metropolitan Asylums Board should be merged into
such Central Authority, or should itself be that Authority, in which case
its constitution should be altered and adapted to its enlarged duties and
responsibilities.