Hygiene and public health / by B. Arthur Whitelegge.

  • Arthur Whitelegge
Date:
1899
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hygiene and public health / by B. Arthur Whitelegge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    also (subject to any regulations made by the county council) undertake the training of nurses, and may charge for their attendance outside the hospital Every hospital is to be provided with one or more ambulances, and must, if practicable, be in connec- tion with the system of telegraphs. The county council have the power of inspecting any such hospital, and of raising money by loan for the purposes of the hospital. Expenses.— Structural (e.g. site, building, fur- nishing, extensions, etc.) and Establishment (e.g. maintenance of hospital, salaries, etc.) expenses are borne by the several local rates of the constituent local areas, in proportions to be fixed by the Order. The costs of conveying, removing, feeding, medicines, disinfecting, and all other things required for patients individually, exclusive of structural and establishment expenses, are termed patients' expenses. For ordinary non-pauper patients they are to be paid by the local authority out of the rates of the local area from which the patient came, but the Guardians are responsible if poor-law relief had been given at or within a fortnight of the time of admission. Patients desiring exceptional accommodation are themselves responsible for the cost of maintenance, etc., on such terms (special patients' expenses) as the committee may appoint. Note.—The following extract from a recent memorandum of the L.G.B. is important. It may be laid down, with a view of lessening the risk of infection, that a local authority should not contemplate the erection of a small-pox hospital—1st, On any site where it would have within a quarter of a mile of it as a centre either a hospital, whether for infectious diseases or not, or a work- house or any similar establishment, or a population of 150 to 200 persons. 2nd, On any site where it would have within half a mile of it as a centre a population of 500 to 600 persons, whether in one or more institutions or in dwelling houses.
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