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person who is not a pauper, and is reasonably believed to be suffering from
measles; that is to say : —
Ariici.e I.—The Metropolitan Asylum Managers shall not receive into any
of their hospitals a person to whom this Order applies, unless, in their opinion'
they have more accommodation available than is required for the reception of
the pauper patients suffering from measles, whom the Managers are authorised
to receive.
Article II.—Except as hereinafter provided a person to whom this Order
applies shall not be admitted by the Metropolitan Asylum Managers into any
of their hospitals, except on the recommendation of the Medical Officer of
Health for the District of the Sanitary Authority for the execution of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, in which the person is residing at the
time when the question of his removal to hospital arises.
The recommendation of the Medical Officer of Health shall in every case
be sent to the Metropolitan Asylum Managers, and shall be accompanied by
such information respecting the circumstances of the case as the Metropolitan
Asylum Managers may reasonably require.
Provided that the Clerk to the Metropolitan Asylum Managers may, if he
receives general authority in that behalf from the Managers, direct that a
person to whom this Order applies shall be admitted into a hospital of the
Managers otherwise than on the recommendation of a Medical Officer of
Health, if, in the Clerk's opinion, the admission of such person is desirable on
the ground of sudden or urgent necessity, or for some other special or exceptional
reason.
The Clerk shall report to the Hospitals Committee of the Metropolitan
Asylum Managers at their next ordinary meeting, the name of any person
admitted to a hospital of the Managers on his direction, and the grounds on
which his direction for the admission of such person was given.
Article III.—If it becomes necessary to determine the priority in which
persons to whom this Order applies, shall be admitted into any hospital, the
Metropolitan Asylum Managers shall have regard to each person's need of
isolation in the interests of the public health, so far as the same can be
ascertained from the information sent to them by Medical Officers of Health
in pursuance of Article II. of this Order, with the recommendations relating
to the admission to hospital of persons to whom this Order applies.
Article IV.—This Order may be cited as the Metropolitan Asylums
(Measles) Order, 1911.
Given under the Seal of Office of the Local Government Board this
Thirtieth day of May, in the year One thousand nine hundred and
eleven.
John Burns,
President.
Walter T. Jerred,
Assistant Secretary.