Annual report for the year 1912 : (15th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

  • Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England)
Date:
1913
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Credit: Annual report for the year 1912 : (15th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Board receive from the several medical officers of health notifications of infectious disease occurring in the metropolis and publish information relating thereto. [Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vic., c. 72) and Public Hea th (London)°Act, 1891 (54 & 55 Vic., c. 76, s. 55, s.s. (4). (n.) Sanatoria under National Insurance Act, 1911 (Part I.). The Board in 1912 entered into an arrangement with the London County Council under which the Board provides the sanatorium accommodation for tuberculous patients in the County of London required by the Insurance Committee for the County. [i & 2 Geo. a c. 55.] (Hi.) Ambulance Service. Be the Poor Law Act. 1879 [42 & 43 vie, c. 54, is], superseded by sec. 79 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, the Board was empowered to provide an ambulance service for the removal of patients. (iv.) The Mentally Defective. The Local Government Board Order, dated 15th May, 1867, included the “ insane ” amongst the classes of poor for whose reception and relief the Board A further Order, dated 13th May, 1875, defined the persons to be admitted into the Board’s imbecile asylums as such harmless persons of the chronic or imbecile class as could be lawfully defamed in a workhouse; but dangerous or curable persons such as would under the statutes in that behalf require to be sent to a lunatic asylum shall not be admitted. A Local Government Board Order, dated 2nd April, 1897, included feeble¬ minded children amongst the classes of poor persons to be received by the Board, and authoritv was subsequently given for the retention of these cases after 16 years of a«e. The provisions in this behalf are now incorporated m an Order dated 29th December, 1911, and called the Metropolitan Asylums (Mentally Defective Persons) Order, 1911, which defines the mentally defective persons to be received as persons not certified as lunatics, who, by reason of mental defect, are incapable of receiving proper benefit from ordinary instruction, or cannot be properly trained in association with other persons in ordinary schools or institutions, or are incapable of using ordinary means or precautions for protecting themselves from injury or improper usage or treatment, or are incapable of maintaining themselves by work ; provided that any such poor person on admission into an asylum belonging to the Metropolitan Asylum Managers shall not exceed 21 years of age. (v.) Children. The provision of a training ship for the training of boys for sea service was sanctioned by the Local Government Board in 1875, under the terms of the Metropolitan Poor Amendment Act, 1869. [32 & 33 vie., c. 63, s. n.] By Orders of the Local Government Board, dated 2nd April, 1897, and 11th September, 1908, the Board was constituted as the central metropolitan authority for dealing with various classes of poor law children, the sick and convalescent, those suffering from ophthalmia and ringworm and the mentally defective (see above). Under the first of these Orders the Board also provided for juvenile offenders from 1902 to 1910, when this branch of work was transferred to the London ( ounty Council. (vi.) Casual Poor. On the 10th November, 1911, the Local Government Board issued the Metropolitan Casual Paupers Order, 1911, forming a district conterminous with the existing Metropolitan Asylum District for the relief of the casual poor of the metropolis.0 The Order also provided under Section 10 of the Pauper Inmates’