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The Committee for the Western Hospital proposed to make
provision for a few small-pox patients, too ill to be removed to
the Hospital Ships. Their intention was to build two wards
on a plan proposed by Dr. Burdon Sanderson, one of the Royal
Commissioners on Infectious Hospitals, so that the infected air
might be purified by passing it through fire. The Managers
declined to proceed upon these lines, but the Committee were
subsequently empowered to obtain a plan and estimate for
adapting an incomplete Ward for the isolation of a few patients.
REGULATIONS FOR THE REMOVAL OF SMALL
POX AND FEVER PATIENTS.
New Regulations were framed in June, 1887, by the
Asylums Board, with the obvious intention of giving effect
to their resolution to facilitate the admittance to their hospitals
of patients suffering from infectious disease, without unnecessary
formalities.
Regulations 2 and 3 read as follows:—
"2. Every application (i.e., for admission) must state the name, age
and full address of the patient, from what disease suffering,
and in case of fever the particular kind of fever, and also
the name of the person making the application, and the
Parish he represents.
"Applications which do not give these particulars will be referred
back to the applicant for the required information to be
furnished.
"3. The Medical Certificate or Order (i.e., of a Relieving Officer or
Master of a Workhouse) for the admission of the patient
must be handed to the nurse in charge of the Ambulance.
Should neither of these documents be handed to the nurse,
the patient will not be removed,"