Tuberculosis Prevention (Ireland) Act, 1908.

  • United Kingdom
Date:
1908
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Tuberculosis Prevention (Ireland) Act, 1908. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Recovery of cost of main* tenance of patients. Saving of disqualifi- cation of patients. Orders, rules, and regulations of Local Government Board. [Ch. 56.] Tuberculosis Prevention {Ireland) Act, 1908. [8 Edw. 7.] penny in the pound on the rateable value of the property in the county, or, in any case where the Local Government Board so consent, the sum which could be similarly raised by a rate of twopence in the pound. (5) All expenses payable by the council of a county other than a county borough in respect of a dispensary shall be raised in the same manner as establishment expenses incurred in relation to a hospital, and shall not in any local financial year exceed the sum which could be raised by a rate of one penny in the pound on the rateable value of the property in the county. 11. —(1) Subject to the provisions of any rules with regard to patients admitted on special terms, all expenses incurred in maintaining in a hospital a patient who is not a pauper shall be a debt due from that patient to the council, or, if he is maintained in a common hospital, to the joint committee, but proceedings for its recovery shall not be commenced after the expiration of six months from the discharge of the patient, or, if he dies in the hospital, from the date of his death. 12. A person shall not suffer any disqualification or any loss of franchise or other right or privilege by reason of his or any member of his family being admitted into and maintained in any hospital provided under this Part of this Act, or being treated in any dispensary so provided. 13. The Local Government Board may make such orders, rules, and regulations as they think proper— {a) for regulating the communications by committees to county councils and by county councils to urban district councils of the respective amounts required to be raised in each local financial year, or any part thereof, and the estimates to be made by committees of their receipts and expenditure in each local financial year; {b) for regulating the method of calculating the amount of patients* expenses to be charged against any county district or county borough ; (c) for regulating the administration of hospitals and dispensaries ; and (d) generally for the purpose of carrying this Part of this Act into effect.