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"4. The expediency of the managers of the Metropolitan
Asylum District establishing additional hospitals and
making special provision for convalescent cases.
"5. The conditions and limitations under which the
hospitals provided by the managers should be continued,
and the general conditions and limitations which should be
observed in the case of the establishment of new hospitals,
whether by managers or any other authority, so as to
insure, as far as practicable, the recovery of the patients
and the protection of the public against contagion.
"6. The operation of the Acts relating to the establishment
of hospitals for small.pox and fever patients in the
Metropolis, and the provisions, if any, required for the
acquisition of sites for such hospitals, whether by agreement
or otherwise, and for the protection of the authorities providing
small.pox and fever hospitals, subject to the same
being; conducted with reasonable care and according; to
prescribed regulations from liability to legal proceedings,
so as to secure the public against the loss of the benefits
arising from such limitations, and to make such suggestions
as may be deemed expedient in connection with all or any
of the matters aforesaid."
The Royal Commission has, from time to time, examined
scientific witnesses on the above.mentioned specified subjects.
It is to be hoped that their report to Parliament may
lead to legislation, which will settle the vexed question of
the infectious diseases' hospitals, and so prevent further
litigation respecting them.
The Appeal No. 1 of the long.contested case of "Hill
and Others v. The Managers of the Metropolitan Asylum