London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Kensington 1886

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]

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Fever Hospital Accommodation 43
Views of the Royal Commission 43
„ Requirements of the Metropolis, amply supplied at present 43
„ North Western Hospital (Hampstead), closed 45
„ Western Hospital (Fulham), Improvements at 45
Hospital Ships 46
„ Note on Medical Inspection of 48
Asylums Board: Number of patients treated in Hospitals of, in 1886 49
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. (1886) 50
Clinical Instruction: Hospitals utilised for purpose of 52
Darenth Camp Litigation closed 52
Ambulance Service, The Asylums Board 53
„ „ Annual Report of the Committee 53
„ „ River Steamers 54
„ „ Wharves 55
„ „ Metropolitan, a desideratum soon to be supplied 55
„ „ Objectionable employment of public vehicles for
conveyance of the Infectious Sick: Action of
Police Authorities, and of Asylums Board 56
„ „ Views of the Medical Officer of Health:
dorsed by the Asylums Board 57
Non-Pauper Infectious Sick; Hospital Provision for 58
Poor Law Act, 1879. The Poor Law Act, 1879, allows of contracts
between Asylums Board and Sanitary Authorities for
treatment of the Infectious Sick 59
„ The Act in abeyance : Patients admitted to Hospitals, in
1884, freely and without payment 59
„ The Managers of Asylums Board seek and obtain authority,
in 1884, to enter into contracts with Sanitary Authorities
under provisions of the Act 60
„ Sanitary Authorities in many instances decline to enter
into contracts with the Managers 60
„ Vestry's objection to the proposed contract system:
Principles on which it is based 61
„ Vestry recommends that all charges in connection with
Medical Relief in Hospitals be borne upon a Common
Sanitary Fund 61
„ Sanitary Authorities in London confer (in 1881) and agree
in regard to the principles upon which Vestry's
objection to contract had been based 62
„ Society of Medical Officers of Health concurs 63
„ Important new departure by Asylums Board 63