with a view to procuring information which might assist him in drafting new legislation for the reform of workhouse infirmaries. There was a particular concern that those suffering from infectious fevers and smallpox, and the insane, should be removed from the workhouses and treated in separate hospitals.

The first decades of Metropolitan Asylums Board

The Metropolitan Poor Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 6) instructed that all unions and

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