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Power to guardians to admit poor persons requiring medical or surgical aid into the infirmary of the workhouse.
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3. [Recital.] It shall be lawful for such guardians to admit into the infirmary of the workhouse any poor persons requiring medical or surgical aid in hospital, and to provide for their treatment and maintenance therein, charging the expense thereof on the electoral division or union at large, as the case may be, according to such person’s chargeability by residence under the laws which are or shall be in force for the relief of the destitute poor in Ireland: Provided, that no person admitted to the workhouse for medical or surgical treatment in hospital shall be required by the guardians to be accompanied by any member of his or her family as a condition of such person’s admission into the workhouse.
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