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2. The Council will in consideration of the reception treatment
and maintenance of the Patients coming from their
District as above mentioned make to the Corporation
the following payments (a) of the annual sum of £1 10s.
for every thousand of the estimated population of the
District of the Council which said annual sum shall be
fixed according to the current estimate of the RegistrarGeneral
on the 1st day of January in each year as from
the 1st day of January . And (b) the Council
will further pay to the Corporation the actual cost of
the maintenance of the patients sent by the Council and
the cost shall be arrived at in the following way. The
actual cost of the maintenance of all the Patients sent by
the Council the other subscribing Districts and the Corporation
shall be ascertained on the 31st day of March
and the 30th day of September in every year and such
cost shall be divided by the number of Patients and the
total number of days that such Patients have been
inmates of the Hospital and such amount shall be deemed
to be the cost of keeping a Patient for one day for the
half-year as to which such account is taken. And the
Council shall pay to the Corporation the sum that shall
be arrived at by multiplying the said cost of maintaining
a Patient for one day by the number of Patients sent by
the Council to the Corporation for that half-year and by
the number of days that such Patients shall in the aggregate
have remained in the Hospital. In addition the
Council shall pay the reasonable charges of the Corporation
in respect of the conveyance of Patients to or
from the Hospital (should the Corporation at any time
undertake such conveyance) the provision of suitable
clothing for them or their funerals or burials or the
obtaining of any Magistrates Order which may be
necessary in connection with such burial.
3. The Corporation shall within 21 days after the 31st day of
March and the 30th day of September in each year transmit
to the Clerk of the Council an account showing in
respect of the Patients received into the Hospital from
the District of the Council:
(a) The name of Patient.
(b) The number of days during such half-year eaeh
Patient has remained in the Hospital.