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Managers are intended for the reception only of paupers chargeable to
Parishes and Unions in the Metropolis, except in cases in which a refusal to
admit a person not a pauper might be attended to such person with dangerous
results.
The Clerk reported to the Board that he had seen Mr. Vallance, the
Clerk to the Guardians of Whitechapel, who kindly informed him that every
assistance should be given in the necessary administration to the non-pauper
patients, who should be admitted to the ward in the stone-yard, which had
been appropriated by the Guardians for the use of the Board.
The Surveyor reported to the Board that, in accordance with the directions
of the Medical Officer, the ward in the stone-yard was being fitted up
and adapted for the reception of non-pauper patients, and that it would be
finished and ready for occupation within forty-eight hours. The Board
approved of the suggested arrangements.
At a Meeting of the Committee of Works, held on the 8th January, the
Surveyor reported that the premises in the stone-yard were ready for the
reception of patients.
The Clerk directed the attention of the Committee to the consideration
of the interpretation of the term "non-pauper patients," and proposed as a
test of the term the ability to pay on the part of the proposed patients.
It was resolved that the patients to be admitted to the accommodation
provided be such as are able to pay, and that the sum to be demanded be ten
shillings per week ; and that persons unable to pay such amount be referred
to the Believing Officer, to be provided for in the usual manner.
Mr. Battram's Report.—Small Pox.
From the 19th October, 1876, to the 10th February, 1877, 34 eases of smallpox
have been recorded in the South District. Of this number, 4 cases took
place in the Begistered Common Lodging Houses. The whole of the rooms
in which small-pox occurred have been disinfected with sulphurous acid gas,
and Notices served upon the respective owners to strip the old paper off the
walls and to thoroughly cleanse the walls and ceilings. In all cases these
Notices have been complied with. Copies of all the hand-bills and posters,
which have been largely distributed about the District, cautioning people not
to expose their bedding, &c., before such articles had been properly disinfected,
have been left at all the Schools and the Registered Common
Lodging Houses.
Fever.
Between the 21st November, 1876, and the 10th February, 1877,
8 cases of fever have been recorded in the South District, 1 of which was in a
Registered Common Lodging House. The deaths in this portion of the
District have been 5, and the rooms have been dealt with in the same manner
as where small-pox had occurred.