Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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I. The Governors of such Hospital shall set apart
twenty-four beds in a convenient part or parts
of the Hospital, and shall receive therein such
patients (herein called in-patients), being 3ick
and otherwise qualified according to the provisions
hereof, as shall be sent by the Trustees
with in-patients' orders, as hereinafter provided.
II. The said Governors shall also receive and supply
with advice and medicine, as out-patients, all
poor persons resident in the said several parishes
who shall be sent bv the Trustees with out-
patients' letters, at the customary times for the
attendance of out-patients.
III. The Secretary of the said Hospital shall give
immediate notice to the Clerk of all vacancies
in the number of in-patients and of any person
being rejected as an in-patient.
IV. All in-patients requiring medical or surgical aid,
and being fit cases for Hospital treatment, shall
be received indiscriminately, whether suffering
from contagious or infectious disorders or not
(small-pox alone being excepted), and shall be
treated in all respects in the same manner
as the other patients received into the
Hospital.
21. In the event of a breach of any of the above
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conditions, or of any difference arising as to the true
construction thereof, after notice in writing of such
breach shall have been given by the Trustees to the
said Governors, the Trustees shall give notice thereof
to the Attorney-General, whom failing, to the Charity
Commissioners, who after hearing both parties shall,
if he or they see fit, authorize the Trustees to cease
from paying the net income to the said Governors, and
in such case, or in case the said Hospital shall at any
time ccase to exist or be discontinued, the Trustees
shall give notice thereof to the Attorney-General, who