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allow their hospitals to be so used as contemplated by the abovenamed
Act; and regulations for giving effect to the plan have
been approved and submitted to the Local Government Board.
Arrangements will be made in the first instance at the Eastern
South-Eastern, and Western Hospitals. The advantages proposed
are intended for medical students, who have practically no
opportunities at general hospitals for becoming acquainted with
the characters and the treatment of infectious diseases, which are
now almost entirely excluded from those institutions. Subject to
the approval of the Local Government Board, the Medical
Superintendents of the several hospitals are to act as clinical
instructors, and, as remuneration for their services in this respect,
are, until the Managers otherwise order, to receive such portion
of the fees paid by the students as the Board shall from time to
time direct, subject to the approval of the Local Government
Board : moreover, the regulations will be made to apply, as far as
may be practicable, to any qualified medical man who may be
desirous of attending the course of study, and who shall obtain
the consent of the Medical Superintendent of the hospital at which
he may elect to study. The minimum period of study for students
(who will be non-resident) is two months, with a minimum
attendance of not less than two days in each week. Each student
who satisfactorily completes the course of study, will receive a
certificate to that effect, after it has been signed by the Medical
Superintendent. The rules do not apply to the Small-Pox
Hospital Ships at Long Reach, but probably, in the case of those
ships, some provision will, under suitable rules, be made for the
residence of a certain number of students. Happily, opportunities
for study of small-pox at the ships are, and long have been, 011 the
smallest scale. Last year only five patients were admitted.
Reference to the work of the Asylums Board in 1889 may
be fitly concluded by the following table, showing the number of
cases admitted to the Managers' Hospitals from the several
Parishes and Unions which it will be understood are not conterminous
with the sanitary districts:—