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Admission of patients to fever hospitals and convalescent homes.
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26.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the hospital board may, from time to time, with the approval of the Minister, make rules for the admission of patients to any fever hospital or convalescent home which is for the time being controlled and managed by the hospital board.
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(2) Rules made under this section may prescribe a procedure to be complied with by persons ordering the admission of patients to any fever hospital for the time being controlled and managed by the hospital board, and may provide for the admission of patients, to any fever hospital or convalescent home controlled and managed by the hospital board, on special terms as to payment and accommodation.
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(3) The hospital board shall, so far as accommodation permits, receive, into any fever hospital which is for the time being controlled and managed by the hospital board, any patients suffering from infectious diseases sent to such fever hospital on the order of—
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(a) the medical superintendent officer of health of the county borough of Dublin, or
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(b) any assistant medical officer of health of the county borough of Dublin, or
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(c) any medical officer of health of a dispensary district in the county borough of Dublin,
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and the expression “city patients” means in this Act patients received in any such fever hospital under this sub-section.
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(4) The hospital board shall, so far as accommodation permits, receive, into any fever hospital which is for the time being controlled and managed by the hospital board, any patients suffering from infectious diseases sent to such fever hospital on the order of—
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(a) the county medical officer of health for the county of Dublin acting in his capacity as medical superintendent officer of health for any sanitary district situate in the said county, or
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(b) any assistant county medical officer of health for the Dublin County Health District, or
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(c) any medical officer of health of a dispensary district in the county of Dublin,
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and the expression “county patients” means in this Act patients received into any such fever hospital under this sub-section.
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(5) The hospital board may, with the approval of the Minister, enter into an agreement with the sanitary authority of any sanitary district not situate in the county or county borough of Dublin for the reception into any fever hospital which is for the time being controlled and managed by the hospital board, upon such terms as may be agreed upon, of inhabitants of the sanitary district of such authority who are suffering from infectious diseases.
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