The planning of fever hospitals and disinfecting and cleansing stations / by Albert C. Freeman.

  • Freeman, Albert C.
Date:
[1909]
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Credit: The planning of fever hospitals and disinfecting and cleansing stations / by Albert C. Freeman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE OPEANNING: OF FEVER HOSP LLALS AND: DISINFECTING AND CEEANSING STATIONS INTRODUCTION. The desirability of a work dealing exclusively with the provision, planning, and construction of Fever Hospitals, and of Disinfecting and Cleansing Stations has long been felt by Municipal and other public bodies. In order to give an increased interest to the work, we will first glance at the history and growth of sanitary reform in the treatment of infectious disease. The Local Authorities obtained powers to build, or other- wise arrange for hospitals for infectious diseases, by the passing of the Sanitary Act of 1866: These powers were considerably increased by the Public Health Act, 1875, and the Isolation Hospitals Act, 1893. The former provides for Local Authorities making provision for the reception Of the sick im- their districts, It gives the power to build such hospitals or places of reception; to contract for the use of any hospital, or part of a hospital, or place of reception, or to enter into any agreement with any person having the management of any hospital, for the reception of the sick inhabitants of their district, on payment of such annual or other sum as may be agreed on. It also provides for two or more Local Authorities combining to provide a common hospital. By this Act Local Authorities may purchase land, erect buildings, furnish and maintain hospitals, the cost being defrayed by a local rate. This rate, however, is not to include “ patients’ expenses,’? which are described as the cost of removing and feeding the patients, providing medicines, disinfection, and all other things necessary for them. 6 ! B