Tuberculosis Prevention (Ireland) Act, 1908.

  • United Kingdom
Date:
1908
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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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    Classification of expenses of hospitals. Expenses of committees. [Oh. 56.] Tuberculosis Prevention (Ireland) Act, 1908. [8 Edw. 7.] councils or committee of management in respect of any hospital established under this Act shall be classified as establishment expenses and patients’ expenses. “ Establishment expenses ” shall include the original cost of providing the hospital, and of furnishing the hospital with the necessary appliances and furniture, and the cost of any extension or enlargement of the hospital, and the cost of keeping the hospital, its appliances and furniture, in a state requisite for the comfort of the patients; also the salaries of the doctors, nurses, officers, servants, and all other expenses for maintaining the hospital in a fit state for the reception of patients. “ Patients’ expenses ” means the cost of conveying, removing, feeding, providing medicines, disinfecting, and all other things required for patients individually, exclusive of “ establishment expenses.” (2) All expenses incurred by a county council in relation to the making or carrying out of an agreement under this Act for the reception, maintenance, and treatment of patients in a hospital shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be “ patients’ expenses.’ * 8.—(1) Subject to any conditions and restrictions which the county council or councils concerned may, with the consent of the Local Government Board, impose, all expenses incurred* in relation to a hospital or dispensary under this Part of this Act shall, in the first instance, be defrayed by the committee out of a fund to be called the common fund, and all sums received or recovered by the committee shall be paid into that fund and carried to the appropriate account thereof. (2) In the common fund, separate accounts shall be kept as regards establishment expenses and as regards patients’ expenses, and in the case of patients’ expenses a separate account shall be kept for each urban or rural district in the county or counties concerned in respect of the patients who were resideut in the district at the time of admission. (3) The money required to meet the expenses of a committee under this section shall be supplied by the county council or councils concerned upon the prescribed demand of the committee, and the money so demanded shall be a debt due from the council to the committee and may be recovered by the committee suing in the name of any member or officer of the committee.