On the provision of isolation hospital accommodation by local authorities.

  • Great Britain. Local Government Board
Date:
1902
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Credit: On the provision of isolation hospital accommodation by local authorities. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    5 Bospitals for Small-pox.—In view of the frequently demonstrated liability of small-pox hospitals to disseminate that disease to neighbouring communities, and in order to lessen the risk of such occurrence, the Board require the following conditions to be complied with in the case of small-pox hospitals provided by means of loans sanctioned by them :— 1st. The site must not have within a quarter of a mile of it either a hospital, whether for infectious diseases or not, or a icorkhouse, asylum, or any similar establishment, or a population of as many as 200 persons. 2nd. The site must not have within half a mile of it a population of as many as 600 persons, ivhether in one or more institutions, or in dwelling-houses. 3rd. Even ivhere the above conditions are fulfilled, a hospital must not be used at one and the same time for the reception of cases of small-pox and of any other class of disease. Useful information on the administration of isolation hospitals, derived from experience of them in various parts of England and Wales, will be found in a report [C.—3290] of the Medical Department, 1882—re-issued in 1901. W. H. POWER, Medical Ofl&cer. Local Government Board, Medical Department, May, 1902. ll64i B