HC Deb 22 July 1897 vol 51 cc826-7

  1. (1.) Any local authority may, and if required by the Board shall, provide, furnish, and maintain for the use of inhabitants of their district suffering from infections disease, hospitals, temporary or permanent, and houses of reception for convalescents from infections diseases, or for persons who have been exposed to infection, and for that purpose may—
    1. (a) themselves build such hospitals or houses; or
    2. (b) contract for the use of any such hospital or house or part thereof; or
    3. (c) enter into any agreement with any person having the management of any such hospital or house or part thereof on payment of such annual or other stun as may be agreed on;
    4. (d) any local authority, with the consent of the Board, may also, or in place of providing such hospitals or houses as aforesaid, employ trained nurses to attend the sick in their own houses, and also supply medicines and medical attendance for such sick.
  2. (2.) Two or more local authorities may, and if required by the Board shall, combine in providing and maintaining a common hospital or house of reception, or in employing trained nurses on terms to be agreed on, and failing agreement to be fixed by the Board, whose determination shall be final and binding.
  3. (3.) No contract for the use of any such hospital or house or part thereof shall be entered into without the consent of the Board, and no such hospital or house of reception be provided unless and until the, site and plans for the construction thereof have been approved of by the Board. Provided always that such site shall he in or within a convenient distance of the district of the local authority, or, in the case of a combination in terms of this section, in or within a convenient distance of the combined district.
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  4. (4.) A local authority may, with the sanction and subject to regulations made by the Board, provide and maintain one or more portable hospitals for the use of their district.

Amendments made: In Sub-section (1), paragraph (d), leave out "sick," and insert "persons suffering from infectious disease"; leave out "trained," after "providing," and insert "furnishing."

MR. CALDWELL

moved, in Sub-section (2) to leave out "trained."

DR. TANNER (Cork, Mid)

asked why the word should be left out?

*MR. SPEAKER

Perhaps the hon. Member is not aware that this is a consequential Amendment, the word having been left out in the earlier part of the clause.

Amendment agreed to.

Amendment made: In Sub-section (2), leave out "final and."

Clause 67,—