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• with such nourishment, bedding, clothing, medicines,
and medical appliances, and other necessaries, as may
be necessary for the due care and treatment of the
poor persons admitted into every such hospital, " and
also such a number of competent nurses and attend-
ants as the Commissioners of Health may think ne-
cessary for each hospital, and also to rent, hire, or
procure a rouse, building, or room, to be used as a
dispensary, or office, for the medical officer of such
union, and to provide such other medicines and
medical appliances, including nutriment, if necessary,
as the medical officer may require to out-destitute
persons who may be affected with disease.
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Commissioners of Health. Persons affected with fever,
or other epidemic disease, to be
admitted under the
t;uthority of the committee, or by their officers, duly
authorised; and the medical officers appointed under
the provisions of the existing Act shall be continued
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the two succeeding
clauses, has been taken from the 58tli Geo. 111., cap.
47, empowers the relief committees to give such irec-
tions as they consider necessary and expedient for
preventing the communication of fever or other
epidemic diseases within their respective electoral
districts or divisions; and for that purpose to order
that all streets, lanes, courts, gardens, &c., shall be
cleansed and purified; and that all manures prejudi-
cial to health shall be removed therefrom; and that
all houses in which any sick persons were residing
shall be ventilated, fumigated, white-washed—the
building and furniture to be exposed to the air,
washed, cleansed, and, if absolutely necessary, burned
and destroyed.
The seventh clause vests the relief committees of
those districts where fever hospitals have been esta-
blished with power to remove infected persons {not
under proper medical care, and not placed in such
circumstances and under such precautions as may
most probably tend to prevent the communication of
disease) to hospital, upon the certificate of the medical
officer, after due inquiry into the circumstances of the
case. This power is, however, accompanied with the
following proviso :—" That the said relief committee
shall in all cases of such compulsory removal of any
person into such fever hospital, make a special report
thereof to the said commissioners within two days
after such removal shall take place."
The eighth clause imposes a maximum penalty of
51., or one month's imprisonment, upon conviction
before two magistrates, on any person who shall
resist or oppose the execution of the powers of the
relief committees under this Act, such conviction not
to be quashed for informality, nor to be subject to
any certiorari proceeding or appeal whatever.
The ninth clause declares that the general issue
be pleaded in any action brought against relief com-
mittees, collectively or individually, or their officers,
and that, in the event of the plaintiff in the suit fail-
ing to establish his case, the tribunal before whom the
case underwent adjudication shall award costs to the
defendant.

The tenth clause enacts that the necessary ex-
penses incurred by any relief committee, in carrying
any order of the relief commissioners into effect, and
in the execution of the other purposes of this Act, shall
be defrayed out of the funds from time to time placed
at the disposal of such relief committee, under the
provisions of the Destitute Poor Act of the present
session.