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16
C.
Extbact from the Communication of the Kensington Vestry, Dated
the 20th November, 1884, upon the Subject of the Hospital
Treatment of Non-Pauper Cases of Infectious Disease.
(a) That the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums Board should be
empowered to make adequate provision of hospital accommodation for
infectious disease for all classes of the population in need of such
accommodation.
(b) That patients should be admitted into the Managers' hospitals upon
certificates signed by any duly qualified medical practitioner.
(c) That as the hospitals of the Managers have been established for the
common good at the public cost, no compulsory payment should be
exacted from persons whom the Sanitary Authority may deem it
necessary or expedient to remove to the hospitals for the purpose of
isolation.
(d) That all expenses incident to the maintenance and treatment of such
persons in the hospitals should be defrayed out of a Common Sanitary
Fund, the Metropolis being treated for the purpose as a single district,
and
(e) That steps should be taken to alter, by Act of Parliament, the constitution
of the Board, by severing its connection with pauperism in so far as
relates to the treatment of infectious disease, and by providing for the
election of a certain proportion of the Managers by the several Sanit try
Authorities, i.e., the Vestries and District Boards of Works.