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110 observations to offer although they would be prepared
to carry out any instructions which the Local Government
Board may issue in reference to the section of the Act referred
to"—an important proviso, seeing that before any person can
be removed to a "hospital for the reception of the sick " by
justice's order, "the consent of the superintending body of such
hospital" must be obtained.
CLINICAL INSTRUCTION.
The Managers, desirous of making their hospitals availabl
for clinical instruction, upon conditions embodied in a report
dated February, 1886, and as contemplated by Section 29 of the
Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, obtained from the Local Government
Board the necessary authorisation, and registered practitioners
are now eligible to be appointed, with the status of
assistant medical officer, the period of residence being limited to
three months. The arrangement is advantageous, seeing how
greatly the opportunities of medical students for studying
infectious diseases have been curtailed, not to say annihilated,
as regards small-pox, scarlet fever, etc., by exclusion from
general hospitals of sufferers from these diseases.
Reference to the work of the Asylums Board in 1888 may
be fitly concluded by the following Table, shewing the number
of cases admitted to the Managers' Hospitals from the several
sanitary districts:—