Cork Fever Hospital Act, 1935

Admission of patients.

33.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Board may, from time to time, with the approval of the Minister, make rules for the admission of patients, including patients admitted on special terms as to payment and accommodation.

(2) The Board shall, so far as accommodation permits, receive into the new fever hospital—

(a) any patients (in this Act referred to as city patients) suffering from infectious diseases sent to the new fever hospital on the order of—

(i) the medical superintendent officer of health of the county borough of Cork, or

(ii) the assistant medical officer of health of the county borough of Cork, or

(iii) any medical officer of health of a dispensary district in the county borough of Cork;

(b) any patients (in this Act referred to as joint district patients) sent to the new fever hospital on the order of—

(i) the county medical officer of health for the county of Cork acting in his capacity as medical superintendent officer of health for the county health district or any urban district comprised in the joint district,

(ii) the assistant county medical officer of health for the county health district,

(iii) any medical officer of health of a dispensary district in the joint district.

(3) The Board may, with the approval of the Minister, enter into an agreement with any sanitary authority (other than the Corporation, the board of health, or the councils of the urban districts comprised in the joint district) for the reception into the new fever hospital upon such terms as may be agreed upon of inhabitants of the sanitary district of such authority who are suffering from infectious diseases.