§ Commons Amendments to Lords Amendments and consequential Amendments considered (according to order.)
§ LORD DE RAMSEYMy Lords, there are a good many Amendments to this Bill, but there are none of importance upon which I need trouble your Lordships with any remarks. Perhaps it will be as well if I move them altogether, and ask your Lordships to assent to them, as they are all really verbal.
THE EARL OF KIMBERLEYI do not think they are all quite verbal. There is one with regard to leaving out the word "dangerous." The Commons Amendment proposes to leave that word out, and I should like to know exactly what the effect of that is.
§ LORD DE RAMSEYWith regard to this matter, it has been suggested that under this clause, as passed by your Lord-ships, there might be cases where a person who is presumed to be suffering from a dangerous infectious disease, and who in consequence has been removed to a hospital, might be afterwards found not to be suffering from a dangerous and infectious disease within the meaning of the Bill—that is, patients found to be suffering from chicken-pox who were supposed to be suffering from small-pox, or from measles when they are supposed to be suffering from scarlet-fever. It was said that as the clause stood payment might be claimed in those cases, and that that might check the sending of patients to hospitals in such cases. It is therefore proposed to leave out the word "dangerous."
§ Commons Amendments agreed to.