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LEGISLATION.
Diseases Prevention (Metropolis) Act, 1888.—This Act was
passed with the object of conferring increased powers on the
Metropolitan Local Authorities, for the purpose of dealing
with cholera, should it invade the metropolis.
The Metropolitan Asylums Board are constituted a Local
authority and are enabled to contract with the managers of
any existing hospital for the purpose of utilizing such hospital
accommodation as may be placed at their disposal. They
may also utilize the hospitals under their own control, and
subject to the consent of the Local Government Board, they
may contract for the use of accommodation in Asylums under
the Metropolitan Poor Act of 1867 or any Workhouse.
The duty is also put upon the Managers of the Metropolitan
Asylums District to provide wharves upon the
Thames for the purpose of facilitating the removal to hospitals
of persons suffering from infectious disease.
This Act also provides that the admission of a person suffering
from infectious disease into any hospital or hospital
ship provided by the Managers, or the maintenance of any
such person therein, shall not be considered parochial relief,
alms, or charitable allowance to any person, or to the parent
of any person, and no such person or his parent, shall, by
reason thereof be deprived of any right or privilege, or be
subject to any disability or disqualification.
It is also provided that " nothing in this Act shall be
deemed or construed to exempt any local authority in the
metropolis from the performance of any duties or liabilities
assigned to them by regulations of the Local Government
Board under the Diseases Prevention Act, 1855."
Factory and Workshop Act, 1888.— This Act requires that
no white lead factory shall be carried on after December 31st
of the present year, unless the occupier shall have received
from an Inspector of Factories a certificate stating that certain
conditions have been complied with. These conditions
relate to the ventilation of stacks and stoves, opportunities
for cleanliness, opportunities for taking meals in a room
where no work is carried on, and the provision for every
person working at any tank of an overall suit with head covering,
for every person working at any white.bed a respirator