Annual report for the year 1917 : (20th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

  • Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England)
Date:
1918
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Credit: Annual report for the year 1917 : (20th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDICES AND TABLES. I. CONSTITUTION AND DUTIES OF THE METROPOLITAN ASYLUMS BOARD. CONSTITUTION. The Metropolitan Asylums Board was established by an Order of the Poor Law Board, dated 15 May, 1867, pursuant to the provisions of the Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867 [oo & 3l vie., c. 6]. This Act empowered the Poor Law Board to combine into districts the unions and parishes of the metropolis as they should think fit, for the purpose of establishing “ asylums ” for the reception and relief of the sick, insane or infirm, or other class or classes of the poor, and to issue Orders controlling the action of the Managers of any such district. The Metropolitan Asylum District embraces all the unions and parishes in London, and the Board deal with those matters which it is considered can best be transacted by a central authority for the whole of the metropolis rather than by each separate board of guardians acting locally. The Poor Law Board and their successors, the Local Government Board, have from time to time issued Orders for the direction and guidance of the Metropolitan Asylums Board. The Board is composed of 73 members, 55 being elected by the metropolitan boards of guardians and 18 nominated by the Local Government Board. DUTIES. (i.) Infectious diseases. The first Order already referred to, dated 15 May, 1867, constituted the Board for the reception and relief of the classes of poor persons chargeable to some union or parish in the said district respectively, who may be infected with, or suffering from, fever, or the disease of smallpox, or may be insane. The Diseases Prevention (London) Act, 1883 [46 & 47 Vic., c. 35], removed the civil disabilities which had till then been attached to admission into the Board’s hospitals.