A legal hand-book for the use of hospital authorities / by Leonard Syer Bristowe.

  • Bristowe, Leonard Syer, 1857-1935
Date:
1894
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Credit: A legal hand-book for the use of hospital authorities / by Leonard Syer Bristowe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    Rate-supported Hospitals.—The main purposes for which hospitals and asylums are provided out of the rates are the relief of the pauper population and the prevention of infection. Lunatic Asylums.—Asylums for the reception of pauper lunatics are maintained by the councils of the various counties and boroughs. They are under the control of visiting committees appointed by the councils, and are managed by a staff comprising chaplain, medical officer, superintendent, clerk, trea- surer, and such other officials as may be thought necessary. The visiting committee are authorized to contract with the manager of a licensed house or with the visiting committee of another asylum for the reception of pauper lunatics. They are also empowered to permit private patients to be received upon such terms as to payment and accommodation as may be thought right, and they may, with the consent of the council and the approval in writing of the Secretary of State, make alterations in or additions to the asylum, either by way of detached buildings or otherwise, for the purpose of providing accommodation for such patients. In the metropolis there are also three asylums established by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, for the reception of chronic pauper imbeciles. Poor-law Infirmaries.—These are under the control of the guardians of the poor, and are intended for pauper patients only, but in the case of large in- firmaries separate from the workhouses, it is difficult to confine them rigidly to persons of this class. The poor-law infirmaries in the metropolis are maintained under the Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867 (Grathorne
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