The planning of fever hospitals and disinfecting and cleansing stations / by Albert C. Freeman.

  • Freeman, Albert C.
Date:
[1909]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The planning of fever hospitals and disinfecting and cleansing stations / by Albert C. Freeman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Local Government Board, and with the consent of the Council, transfer it to the Council of the county within which the hospital, or any part of the district of the Authority, is situate. (2) Any money paid to a Local Authority or any such transfer shall be applied as the Local Government Board direct, either in repayment of any loan of the Local Autho- rity, or for any other purpose for which capital money may be properly applied. (3) Any hospital transferred under this section shall be appropriated to a district formed under the Isolation Hos- pitals Act, 1893, and may be adapted as an isolation hospital, and any hospital so appropriated shall be treated as if it had been originally established under that Act for the district. (4) Amy expenses incurred by a County Council an ‘or incidental to the transfer of any hospital under this Act shall be defrayed as structural expenses incurred by a Hospital Committee within the meaning of Section 17 of the principal Act. Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897.—(1) This Act permits Local Authorities to provide cleansing and disinfection for persons infested with vermin. It gives Local Authori- ties the power, when in their discretion they shall see fit, to permit any person who shall apply to the said Authority, on the ground that he is infested with vermin, to have the use, free of charge, of any apparatus which the Authority possess for cleansing the person and his clothing from vermin. The use of such apparatus shall not be considered to be parochial relief or charitable allowance to the person using the same, or to the parent of such person, and no such person or parent shall by reason thereof be deprived of any right or privilege or be subject to any disqualification or disability. This Act permits Local Authorities to expend any reason- able sum on buildings, appliances, and attendants that may be required for thevexccution of this Act, and- it pro- vides for any expenses so incurred being defrayed out of any rate or fund applicable by the Authority for general sanitary purposes or for the relief of the poor. In this Act “ Local Authority’ means, in England, the Council of any county borough, the District Council of any district, any Board of Guardians, and in the County of London any Sanitary Authority as defined in the Public Health (London) Act, 1891. In the application of this
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