Excerpt from By-Laws of the Corporation and Rules of the Trustees: Revised 1890 Art. 7. He shall report to the Visiting Physicians and Surgeons. The names of all paying patients whose time has expired, and of all free patients who have been treated more than three weeks, and shall submit the same weekly to the Visiting Committee; and at every quarterly meeting of the Trustees at the Hos pital, he shall lay before them a list of all patients who have been in the house over three months. Art. 8. He shall, in the absence of the Visiting Physicians and Surgeons, decide upon the case of any admitted patient, suspected of being affected with small pox or other contagious disease, and at once remove such patient from the ward, or discharge him from the Hospital; and whenever patients misbehave, or Violate any rules of the house, he may remove or discharge them but he shall report suc.. Cases to the Visiting Committee at their next visit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.