Report of the County Medical Officer on isolation hospitals accommodation in Leicestershire : being a supplement to the Annual Health Report for 1913 and presented the the Council, Nov. 11th, 1914 / Leicestershire County Council.

  • Leicestershire (England). County Council
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1913
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Credit: Report of the County Medical Officer on isolation hospitals accommodation in Leicestershire : being a supplement to the Annual Health Report for 1913 and presented the the Council, Nov. 11th, 1914 / Leicestershire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ISOLATION HOSPITALS. In accordance with the resolution of the County directing me to make an inquiry, under Section 6 of The Hospitals Act, 1893, I beg to submit my Report on the Hospitals in the County. ' '* „ ’ The isofation Hospitals Act, 1893. The following are the principal clauses affecting the position at the present time : — • * * ■ • ... ' 4 (3) The Council of every County may, on such application being made to them, from proof adduced, as is in this Act mentioned, provide, or cause to be provided, in any district within their County a hospital for the reception of patients suffering from infectious diseases (in this Act referred to as “an isolation hospital”). (4) An application may be made by any one or more of the Local Authorities having jurisdiction in the County, or by any number of ratepayers, not less than 25 in any contri¬ butory place. (5) (1) The application shall be made by petition, and (2) the County Council shall, by themselves or by a committee of their body, appointed for that purpose, consider the petition, and if satisfied with the statement of the petition as originally prepared, or by any amendment made therein, that a prim a facie case is made out for a local inquiry to be made as to the necessity for the establishment of an isolation hospital. (6) The County Council may direct an inquiry to be made by the Medical Officer of Health of the County as to the necessity of an isolation hospital being established for the use of the inhabitants of any particular district in the County, and in the event of such Medical Officer reporting that such an hospital ought to be established for the use of inhabitants of a district, may take the same proceedings in all respects for the establishment of such hospital as if a petition had been pre¬ sented by a local authority for the establishment of an isolation hospital for the district named in the report of such Medical Officer of Health. Council, Isolation Isolation