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The Local Government Board approved of this course, and in April, 1911,
the Metropolitan Asylums Board commenced to receive Poor Law Cases of
measles and whooping cough.
On the 30th May, 1911, the Local Government Board issued an Order under
Section 80 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, prescribing the following
regulations and restrictions, subject to which non-pauper cases of measles may
be received into the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board : —
Article /.—The Metropolitan Asylums 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 Asylums 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 Asylums Managers, and shall
be accompanied by such information respecting the circumstances of
the case as the Metropolitan Asylums Managers may reasonably
require :
Provided that the Clerk to the Metropolitan Asylums 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 the 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 Asylums 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 Asylums 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.