[699] Decisions of the Local Government Board, 1902-3, by W. A. Casson, 1904, p. 7. The Poor Law Act 1879 had, in fact, expressly authorised boards of guardians to subscribe to charitable institutions to which paupers might have access. It was held, for instance, that boards of guardians may, if they choose, send their sane adult epileptics to an epileptic colony, and pay the cost of their maintenance there (Local Government Chronicle, 29th October 1904, p. 1123). In 1901, the Central Authority sanctioned the payment of £70 by the Bramley Board of Guardians for a cot in the sanatorium of the Leeds Association for the Cure of Tuberculosis (Local Government Board to Bramley Union, February 1901, in Local Government Chronicle, 23rd February 1901, p. 184).
[700] In 1903 it sanctioned the expenditure involved in the setting up of Röntgen Ray apparatus in a Poor Law infirmary (Decisions of the Local Government Board, 1902-3, by W. A. Casson, 1904, p. 10).
[701] Decisions of the Local Government Board, 1903-4, by W. A. Casson, 1905, p. 39.
[702] Hansard, 24th July 1879, vol. 248, p. 1173.
[703] Local Government Board decision, in Local Government Chronicle, 1st November 1902, p. 1102.
[704] General Order of 8th March 1894, in Twenty-fourth Annual Report, 1894-5, pp. xcix, 4-5.
[705] Circular of 29th January 1895, in Twenty-fifth Annual Report, 1895-6, p. iii.
[706] Mr. Long in House of Commons (23rd June 1904; Hansard, vol. 136, p. 971).
[707] Circular of 23rd January 1891; Twentieth Annual Report, 1890-1, p. xc; Report of Royal Commission on Aged Poor, 1895, vol. iii. p. 967, (Cd. 7684 II).
[708] See the references to nursing in Circulars of 29th January 1895 and 7th August 1897; and the General Order (Nursing of the Sick in Workhouses) 6th August 1897; Twenty-fifth Annual Report, 1895-6, pp. 109-110; Twenty-seventh Annual Report, 1897-8, pp. 27-31.