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COUNTY INFIRMARIES (IRELAND) ACT 1814
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CHAPTER LXII.
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An Act to amend several Acts for erecting or establishing Public Infirmaries or Hospitals in Ireland so far as relates to the Surgeons and Apothecaries of such Infirmaries or Hospitals. [27th May 1814.]
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Irish Act, 5 Geo. 3. c. 20.
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Presentment of addition to salary of surgeon of infirmary.
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WHEREAS by an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland in the fifth year of his present Majesty’s reign for erecting and establishing public infirmaries or hospitals in Ireland, it is enacted that the surgeons to be chosen or appointed for the respective county infirmaries or hospitals should be paid by the year a sum not exceeding one hundred pounds to be paid out of the public money in manner as in the said recited Act is mentioned: And whereas the said sum, from the great increase in the price of the necessaries of life, and other circumstances, is inadequate to the fair remuneration of the services of such surgeon; and in consequence thereof it has been found impossible in some counties to procure persons properly qualified according to law to accept such situations: Be it therefore enacted by the King’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and after the passing of this Act it shall and may be lawful for the grand jury of the several counties in the said recited Act mentioned and of all other counties and counties of cities and counties of towns in Ireland, either at the spring or summer assizes to be holden in and for any such county, county of a city, or county of a town in Ireland in each year, to present any sum not exceeding one hundred pounds, to be raised in the county at large, or in the county of a city or county of a town, and to be paid to the surgeon of the infirmary or hospital in such county, county of a city, or county of a town; and which sum shall be in addition to the salary which any such surgeon is entitled to receive under or by virtue of the before recited Act of the fifth year of his present Majesty’s reign or of any other Act or Acts in force in Ireland relating to such infirmaries or hospitals. [Rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91. (S.L.R.)]
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[Ss. 1–3 rep. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 91. (S.L.R.)]
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No governor to vote at the election of a surgeon unless he has paid his subscription two years previously.
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4. And . . . no annual governor or governors of any such infirmary or hospitals shall be permitted to vote at the election of such infirmary upon any vacancy in such office, unless they shall have respectively paid the subscription by virtue of which they claim a right to vote at such election two years at least before any such vacancy shall have occurred.
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A second infirmary may, if necessary, be established, but not within 20 miles of the first; and a surgeon and apothecary may be appointed to attend it, &c.
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5. And . . . whenever and so often as the governors of any infirmary or hospital established within and for any county in Ireland shall deem it expedient to establish a second infirmary or hospital within the same county, it shall and may be lawful for them so to do, taking care that such infirmary shall not be situate within ten miles of the infirmary first established; and in such case it shall be lawful for such governors to elect a surgeon and apothecary for the purpose of attending such second or additional infirmary or hospital; and . whenever and so often as to infirmaries shall be so established within any county, it shall and may be lawful for the surgeon and apothecary of each of the said infirmaries or hospitals to receive respectively one half of the emoluments provided for surgeons or apothecaries of infirmaries or hospitals by this Act or any other Acts now in force relating to such infirmaries or hospitals: Provided always, that both such surgeons shall be duly qualified according to law, and that both of them shall have conformed to all and singular the enactments and provisions contained in this Act or in any other Act or Acts now in force relating to such infirmaries or hospitals.
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Governors may give a salary to an apothecary, for making up medicines.
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6. And . . . in case the governors of any infirmary or hospital shall deem it most economical or otherwise advisable to procure the medicines for the use of such infirmary from Apothecaries Hall in Dublin or from any wholesale dealer in medicines, it shall be lawful for such governors (out of the funds presented by the grand jury of the county, county of a city, or county of a town, in which such infirmary or hospital shall be situated, for the support of any such infirmary or hospital, by virtue of the powers vested in them by any Act or Acts in force for that purpose) to appropriate and pay to any apothecary who shall have duly served an apprenticeship to the art and mystery of an apothecary a sum by the year not exceeding thirty pounds as a salary for the compounding, making up, preparing, and administering medicines to and for the use of patients of such infirmary or hospital; provided that it shall appear to the satisfaction of such governors that such apothecary hath diligently and faithfully executed the duties of his office as aforesaid.
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