Report : 1933 / North Lonsdale Hospital.

  • North Lonsdale Hospital (Barrow-in-Furness, England)
Date:
1933
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report : 1933 / North Lonsdale Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in the Out-Patients’ Department, free of charge. Also to outside Institutional treatment, subject to the Regulations from time to time governing this Hospital, the patients merely paying their railway fares. The term “ children ” in this Regulation shall be deemed to include and be confined to all children living with and dependent upon the contributor, and who are not liable to contribution on their own behalf under these Regulations. In every case coming under this regulation a certificate in the prescribed form signed by one of the officers of the Fund through which free treatment is claimed, must be presented before admission to the Hospital, or before treatment, or in case of accident or urgency, as soon as possible after the admission of the patient. The Council shall be empowered to make special financial arrangements in respect of any Company, or other persons not permanently carrying on business in the town, but who may be employing workmen for any considerable period in the town. 6. —Notwithstanding any of the provisions in the 5th General Regulation as to the free treatment to which any contributor is entitled by reason of his or her contribution, or as to the rate of charge in any other Regulation as to other patients’ treatment, the Council shall be empowered to arrange with and obtain pay¬ ment from any Government Department, Local Authority, or Public Body, for the treatment of any patient at the Hospital, and such payment shall be in addition to any charge or contribution mentioned in the General Regulations. 7. —Cases of accident, or requiring urgent medical or surgical treatment are received into the Hospital, or attended to in the Out-Patients’ Department, as the case may be, at any hour, and the required payment may be made or recommendations or certificates sent afterwards. 8. —Other cases can only be received into the Hospital or attended to in the Out-Patients’ Department upon the requisite recommendations of a subscriber or certificate of a contributor being furnished, or satisfactory arrangements being made for payment of the prescribed charges. 9. -— If at any time all the applicants cannot be received into the Hospital for want of room, the selection of patients will be regulated by a regard to the relative urgency or severity of their ailments. 10. —Only those patients can be admitted into the Hospital whose cases appear to the Medical Staff to require Hospital treatment, and to be likely to benefit within a reasonable period.