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Diseases Prevention (Metropolis) Act 1883

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was set up in 1881 to investigate how best to deal with those suffering from infectious diseases. The commission recommended that the provision of hospital treatment for those with infectious diseases should be decoupled from the Poor Law, and instead be considered part of London's sanitary
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The Diseases Prevention (Metropolis) Act 1883 effectively abolished the distinction between paupers and non-paupers in the provision of the MAB's hospital care. It also had the effect of permitting
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An Act to make better provision as regards the Metropolis for the isolation and treatment of persons suffering from Cholera and other Infectious Diseases; and for other purposes.
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infirmaries to treat paying non-paupers as well as their own inmates, and by the beginning of the 20th century some were even able to operate as private hospitals.
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arrangements. The commission also recommended that paupers and non-paupers should be treated alike, although there might be separate wards for those able to pay.
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England's First State Hospitals and the Metropolitan Asylums Board, 1867–1930
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institution. But under increasing pressure resulting from a series of
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Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning England
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title
Citation
46 & 47 Vict.
Royal assent
Repealed by
Public Health (London) Act 1891
46 & 47 Vict.
Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom
Queen Victoria
Metropolitan Asylums Board
Metropolitan Poor Act 1867
30 & 31 Vict.
Poor Law
smallpox
royal commission
workhouse


short title
Short Titles Act 1896
Ayers (1971)
Ayers (1971)
Ayers (1971)
May (2011)
England's First State Hospitals and the Metropolitan Asylums Board, 1867–1930
ISBN
978-0-520-01792-4
ISBN
978-0-74780-355-3

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