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The Report, which extends to some thirty pages, deals with the
subject under sixteen heads, as follows :—
1. History of Asylums Hospitals.
2. Objects of Inquiry.
3. Behaviour of Small-pox in England.
4. Notification and Isolation of Disease.
5. Distinction of Pauperism to be abolished ; paying and
non-paying patients.
6. Hospital Authorities.
7. Amount of Hospital accommodation required for
pox.
8. Location of Hospitals.
9. Hospitals whether Centres of Infection.
10. Hospitals whether Centres of Infection by their Incidents.
11. Hospitals whether Centres of Infection per se.
J.2. Distribution of Small-pox Patients.
13. River Hospitals.
14. Fevers.
15. Practical Recommendations.
16. Compulsory Purchase.
Having in Sections 1 to 14 dealt with the subject generally
the Commissioners continue as follows :—
15. Practical Recommendations.
And now it will be convenient to preface our further recommendations by a
recapitulation of those which we have already made.
(1). " We are of opinion that the provision of hospital accommodation for
persons suffering from infectious disease in the metropolitan districts should
be entirely disconnected from the administration of the poor law, and treated as
part of the sanitary arrangements of the metropolis.
(2). " We think that the conduct of the hospitals cannot be better placed
than under the management of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, with such
changes in their mode of election as shall give the sanitary authorities of
London—that is to say, the vestries, district boards, and commissioners of
sewers—at least an equal influence with the guardians of tha poor in the choice
of the elective members of the board.