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Places for the reception of fever patients, &c. may be provided.
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16. It shall be lawful for the guardians of any union, if they shall think fit, subject to such regulations as the poor law commissioners may from time to time prescribe, to provide relief for poor persons affected with fever or other dangerous contagious disease, in a house or houses hired or rented for the reception and medical treatment of such poor persons during their illness and convalescence, or by appropriating for that purpose such portion or portions of the union workhouses as the guardians, with the consent of the poor law commissioners, shall consider it safe and convenient to be so applied, and to charge the expence so incurred on the rates of such union.
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