Dublin Fever Hospital Act, 1936

General powers of the hospital board.

40.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the hospital board may, in relation to any fever hospital or convalescent home for the time being managed and controlled by it, do all such things as the governing body of a hospital are usually authorised to do in relation to any hospital controlled by such governing body.

(2) The hospital board may, without prejudice to the generality of any other powers conferred on it by this Act, do all or any of the following things, that is to say:—

(a) in any case where the relatives of any patient, dying in any institution (being a fever hospital or a convalescent home) for the time being managed and controlled by the hospital board, are not known, or by reason of their absence, or poverty or otherwise, are unable to provide for the burial of such deceased patient, defray all necessary and proper expenses incurred in the burial of such deceased patient;

(b) disinfect the clothing and effects of patients in any such institution, and, in respect of any damage caused thereby to such clothing or effects, pay or make compensation;

(c) where clothing is necessary for the proper treatment or protection of a patient in any such institution and such patient is unable by reason of poverty to provide such clothing, provide such clothing.