Letter addressed to the members of the House of Commons on poor law medical relief : with a proposed Bill and commentary &c, &c / by Richard Griffin.

  • Griffin, Richard, 1806-1869.
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[1866]
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Credit: Letter addressed to the members of the House of Commons on poor law medical relief : with a proposed Bill and commentary &c, &c / by Richard Griffin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    also inspect tlie medical officers’ books, and see that they are properly kept. They shall require from each medical officer a quarterly list of the cases treated by him, in accordance to a form to be furnished by the Medical Secretary of the Poor Law Board, in order that the origin and and progress of the preventable diseases may be discovered, and as far as possible prevented; to each of these lists there is to be added the numbers of deaths occuring in each class. The Medical Secretary and Medical Inspectors shall be awarded such salaries and expenses of office as the Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners of the Treasury may direct, {see 'pages 29—30—31—32.) 13 The Poor Law Medical Officers shall be the Officers of Health for their respective districts, excepting in those places where Officers of Health are now appointed, but should no reappointments be made in those places within three months after a vancancy occurs, the Poor Law Medical Officers shall then be the Officers of Health, and they shall receive such remuneration for their services, as the Local Board of Health, if such authority exists, or the Guardians of their respective Unions shall grant, and the Poor Law Board approve, {seepage 32.) 14 The Guardians of every Union shall keep at the union house or dispensary, three or more water beds, which shall be at the disposal of their district medical officers, whenever required by them, for their pauper patients, each master of a workhouse and relieving officer shall also keep one enema syringe, at least, for the use of the poor, under the direction of the medical officers, {see page 33.) 15 That the Statutes now in force, or Pules, Orders, and Regulations of the Poor Law Commissioners, or Poor Law Board, or parts of either one or the other which are contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Bill, shall be, and they are hereby repealed and rescinded, but nothing herein contained shall prevent the Poor Law Board issuing any Order or Orders, or making any Rule or Rules, or Regulations for the better carrying out the true intent and meaning of this Bill. 16 In the continuation of this Bill the word u Parish ” shall be construed to include any Parish, City, Borough, Town, Township, Liberty, Precinct, Village, Hamlet, Tithing, Chapelry, or any other place or division, or district of a place maintaining its own poor, whether parochial or extra parochial; the word “ Union ” shall be construed to include a Parish or' any number of Parishes united under the provisions of any Act, whether general or local, relating to the relief or maintainance of the poor. 17 This Bill shall embrace all Unions, Parishes under Boards of Guardians, Incorporations and Parishes under Local Acts, and Gilbert Acts, together with Parishes under the Act of 43 Eliz. c. 2, in England and Wales.* * The Commentary on this Bill will be found at page 16. D
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