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CLINICAL INSTRUCTION.
The Managers, desirous of making their hospitals available
for clinical instruction, upon conditions embodied in a report dated
February, 1886, and as contemplated by Section 29 of the
Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, have obtained from the Local
Government Board the necessary authorisation, and registered
practitioners are now appointed, with the status of assistant medical
officer, the period of residence being limited to three months.
The arrangement is a very advantageous one, seeing how greatly
the opportunities of medical students for studying infectious
diseases have been restricted, not to say annihilated, as regards
small-pox, scarlet fever, etc., by exclusion from general hospitals
of sufferers from these diseases.
DARENTH CAMP LITIGATION.
Reference may be made to the failure of the plaintiff's
appeal in this case (Fleet v. the Managers) by the unanimous
decision of the Lords Justices, Cotton, Fry, and Bowen, who
did not even call upon the respondents, but dismissed the application
with costs, upon the ground that the Camp, which it was
sought to close, was “ no appreciable injury to the healthiness of
the .plaintiff's property.” The Managers, therefore, may hold
themselves free to utilise their Gore Farm Estate for the
treatment of small-pox, should necessity arise, and whether it
should ultimately be decided to erect a permanent hospital, as the
Managers prefer, or to fall back on wooden huts, as the Local
Government Board suggest, a question already referred to at
page 39.
ASYLUMS BOARD AMBULANCE SERVICE.
The recommendation of the Royal Commission, that the
Asylums Board should have " entire control of the ambulances,
by which all other modes of conveyance should be as far as
possible superseded," has been carried out by the establishment
of Ambulance Stations at three of the Managers' Hospitals