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REMOVAL OF INFECTIOUS SICK TO HOSPITALS.
The attention of the Vestry having been drawn to the
difficulty which had arisen in a neighbouring parish
in obtaining the removal of a person suffering with an
infectious disease, the Vestry again communicated with
the Local Government Board as to the desirability of
all the Hospitals belonging to the Metropolitan Asylums
Board being declared to be within a convenient distance
of the districts of the various Sanitary Authorities in
the metropolis, with a view to removing certain difficulties
in the way of putting in operation the 26th section
of the Sanitary Act, 1866.
This section provides for the removal to hospital of any
person who is suffering from “any dangerous contagious or
infectious disease," and is without proper lodging or accommodation,
provided that within the district of the authority
seeking to make such removal there is a hospital in which
such cases can be received. To meet the case of a large number
of parishes in the metropolis, which are not provided
with hospitals open to the reception of infectious cases two
amending Acts of Parliament have been passed. The first
(33 & 34 Vic., cap. 53, sec. 2) provides that for the purposes
of the 26th section of the Sanitary Act, 1866, every hospital
or place for the reception of the sick situate within the
limits of the Metropolis shall be deemed to be situate within
the district of every Nuisance Authority in the Metropolis,
and the second (37 & 38 Vic, cap. 89, sec. 51) enacts that
every hospital or place for the reception of the sick, which
shall be declared by an order of the Local Government
Board to be within a convenient distance of the district of
any such authority, shall be deemed to be within the district
of the authority.