Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]
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Poor Law Act, 1879, allows of contracts between Asylums
Board and Sanitary Authorities for treatment of
the Infectious Sick 46
„ In abeyance : Patients admitted to Hospitals, in 1884,
freely and without payment 46
„« Managers of Asylums Board seek and obtain authority,
in 1884, to enter into contracts with Sanitary
Authorities under provisions of the 47
„ Sanitary Authorities in many instances decline to enter
into contracts with the Managers 47
„ Vestry's objection to the proposed contract system,
principles on which it is based 48
„ Sanitary Authorities in London confer (in 1881) and
agree in regard to the principles upon which Vestry's
objection to contract had been based 48
„ Society of Medical Officers of Health concur 48
„ Vestry recommends that all charges in connection with
Medical Belief in Hospitals be borne upon a Common
Sanitary Fund 48
„ Objections to the contract system 49
„ Hospital expenses of Asylums Board would be a charge
on the Metropolitan Common Fund in case of a
Cholera Epidemic 50
„ Provision of Local Hospitals, already stated to be unnecessary,
shown to be impracticable also 50
Regulations (New) of the Asylums Board with respect to
the removal of Patients 51
Darenth Camp Litigation ; Fleets. The Managers; Unsuccessful
appeal by Plaintiff : Views of the Judges 5.1
Darenth Encampment, Work of the, in 1884.5. Notes on report
by Medical Superintendent 52
Western Hospital (Fulham) 53
Hospital Ships. Notes on Report by Medical Superintendent 53
Admissions (Gross Total) of Small.pox and Fever Patients at
Asylum Board's Hospitals in 1885 55
Table shewing Quarterly and Total Admissions, of Small.pox and
Fever Patients, at the Hospitals, from each Parish and Union, and
population of the several Districts, etc. (1885) 56
Clinical Instruction : Proposal to utilise the Hospitals for purpose
of 58