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Metropolitan Asylums Board, The Work and Proceedings of the 45
„ ,, The future of, as Infectious Hospital-
providing Authority 46
Infectious Disease Hospital-Question and the Vestries 49
,, ,, Local, Neither necessary nor desirable 50
Non-Pauper Infectious Sick 52
„ Hospital provision for 52
Poor Law Act, 1879 (section 15) allows of contracts between
Asylums Board and Sanitary Authorities for treatment
of the Infectious Sick 53
,, The origin of Section 15 53
,, The Section in abeyance ; Patients admitted to Hospitals,
in 1884, freely and without payment 53
„ The Managers of Asylums Beard seek and obtain authority,
in 1884, to enter into contracts with Sanitary Authorities
under provisions of the Act 54
„ Sanitary Authorities in many instances decline to enter
into contracts with the Managers 54
„ Vestry's objection to the proposed contract system:
Principles on which it is based 55
,, Vestry recommends that all charges in connection with
Medical Relief in Hospitals be borne upon a Common
Sanitary Fund 55
,, Sanitary Authorities in London confer (in 1881) and agree
in regard to the Principles upon which Vestry's
objection to contract had been based: Deputation to
the Local Government Board 56
„ Society of Medical Officers of Health concurs 57
„ Important new departure by Asylums Board 57
„ Mode of admission of Patients to Hospitals under Poor
Law Board's Order of 1875 58
„ Asylums Board apply for power to admit Patients of all
classes, without the Order of a Relieving Officer, upon
the certificate of any Registered Medical Practitioner 59
„ Asylums Board adopt Regulations to facilitate admission
of Patients upon application of Registered Medical
Practitioners 59
, Local Government Board issue an Order to facilitate
admission of Patients, under which the certificate of
any Registered Medical Practitioner is accepted as
evidence of the nature of the Disease 60
„ Forty per cent. of the Patients admitted without an Order
from a Relieving Officer 61