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nothing to gain, in a pecuniary point of view, by the adoption of
the course recommended by your Vestry, has already been shewn.
REGULATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE REMOVAL
OF PATIENTS.
The Asylums Board have (April, 1886) framed modified regulations
" for the removal of small-pox and fever patients, etc."
The Board in sending the Regulations to your Vestry drew special
attention to No. 3, which provides that " unless the Medical Certificate
or Admission Order is handed to the Ambulance Nurse the
patient will not be removed." The regulations are marked by the
customary thoughtfulness of the Managers in all that concerns the
welfare of the sick, but there is nothing in them which directly
concerns us, seeing that the sick are removed by the Guardians;
and assuming, for reasons stated above, that the Managers will
not admit patients upon our application. The "Admission Order"
referred to in Regulation 3 is that of a Relieving Officer, and the
" Medical Certificate," presumably, is that of the Medical Officer
of Health to a Sanitary Authority under contract with the
Managers.
THE DARENTH ENCAMPMENT
was open during the greater part of the year, and discharged to
perfection, in a sanitary point of view, the object for which it was
established, viz., as a place for safe isolation of convalescing
small-pox patients. On decline of the epidemic at the end of
September the Camp was closed, the remaining cases being transferred
to the Hospital Ships.
The report of the Medical Superintendent, Mr. W. C.
Waylen, lately published, contains much information of interest
and value respecting the encampment, which is 4| miles distant
from the Hospital Ships at Long Reach, and was in use from
April, 1884, to September, 1885. During the latter part of this
time it comprised two detached Camps ; " No. 1" with accommodation
for 532 patients ; and " No. 2 " with accommodation for 496
patients ; total, 1,028. In July, 1884,1,028 patients were m camp
at one time : in May, 1885, 1075 ; whilst the working staff