Dublin Fever Hospital Act, 1936

The Resident Medical Superintendent.

21.—(1) The hospital board shall appoint an officer to be called and known as the Resident Medical Superintendent who shall be a duly qualified medical practitioner, and may, subject to the approval of the Minister, fix the duties to be performed by such officer.

(2) The Resident Medical Superintendent shall be responsible to the hospital board for the internal administration of every fever hospital and every convalescent home managed and controlled by the hospital board and shall in the performance of his duties, unless the Minister otherwise directs, adopt and give effect to any recommendations made by the medical superintendent officer of health of the county borough of Dublin.

(3) The Resident Medical Superintendent shall, after the establishment of the new fever hospital, reside therein unless the hospital board, with the consent of the Minister, permit him to reside elsewhere.