[Extract from Public Health Act, 1872.]

Section 192.— If any Keeper, Officer, Nurse, Attendant, Servant, or other person having the care of any lunatic, or employed in any Asylum, Hospital, or Licensed House, shall strike, wound, illtreat, or wilfully neglect any lunatic, or patient confined or detained therein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall be subject to be indicted for every such offence, or to forfeit for every such offence, on a summary conviction thereof before two Justices, any sum not exceeding Fifty Pounds, nor less than Two Pounds, or be imprisoned for any period not exceeding Six Months.

Section 192.— If any Keeper, Officer, Nurse, Attendant, Servant, or other person having the care of any lunatic, or employed in any Asylum, Hospital, or Licensed House, shall, through wilful neglect or connivance, permit any patient in any case to quit or escape from such Asylum, Hospital or Licensed House, or be at large without such order as in the Act mentioned (save in the case of temporary absence authorised under the provisions aforesaid), or shall secrete, or abet, or connive at the escape of any such person, he shall for every such offence forfeit and pay any sum not more than Twenty Pounds nor less than Two Pounds.

XXIII.—EXTRACT FROM “PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1872.”

Section 94.— “The Masters, or other persons, in charge of Reformatories and Industrial Schools, Lunatic Asylums, and other places where the poor or sick are received, and Keepers or Gaolers of Prisons, shall, at the expense of their respective establishments or institutions, cause all inmates thereof to be vaccinated, immediately upon their entrance thereto, unless they produce sufficient evidence of previous successful vaccination within five years, if such vaccination shall not in the opinion of a duly qualified medical man be attended with danger to such person: Provided that the Governor is hereby empowered by Proclamation in the Gazette to declare from time to time an age after which vaccination or revaccination under this clause shall not be compulsory: Provided also that the obligation to be vaccinated or revaccinated under this clause shall not apply to Lunatic Asylums or Hospitals in any case in which the Medical Officer of the Institution shall consider it inexpedient.”

Provincial Secretary’s Office,

Christchurch, 7th January, 1875.

His Honor the Superintendent directs the publication of the following Regulations for the conduct and Management of the Christchurch Hospital.

EDWD. JOLLIE,

Provincial Secretary.

CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL.

GENERAL REGULATIONS.

1. All out patients must apply for either medicine or advice before twelve o’clock on Mondays and Thursdays only, and must bring an order from the Charitable Aid Office.

2. Patients requiring to be admitted must apply to the House Surgeon.

3. Visitors will be admitted on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, only, between two and four p.m.

4. Children will be vaccinated, free of charge, every Friday morning at eleven o’clock.

MANAGEMENT.

1. This Institution shall be called The Christchurch Hospital.

2. The Hospital shall be under the management of the House Surgeon, who shall conduct the same in accordance with such instructions as may from time to time be given to him by the Provincial Government.

3. Tables of the Rules which relate to the conduct of patients and servants shall be posted up in each ward.

4. The House Surgeon shall be responsible to the Provincial Government for the proper management of all stores, and for all monies received or disbursed in connection with the Hospital.

5. The House Surgeon shall have the power of appointing such persons as he may deem fitting to fill such subordinate situations, as may from time to time become vacant, and also of discharging such as may be unfit. He shall report officially to the Provincial Secretary any such appointment or discharge, stating his reasons for the same.

6. The House Surgeon shall forward a full monthly report, in accordance with the prescribed form, to the Provincial Secretary for inspection and approval.

7. No person shall be admitted as a patient except in accordance with these regulations, and with the approval of the House Surgeon. In cases of accident or emergency of which the House Surgeon shall be judge, patients shall be received into the Hospital without delay, and beds shall be always kept ready for cases of fracture or serious accident.

8. All patients admitted into the Hospital shall be accountable for the expense incurred on their behalf. The charge will be made by the House Surgeon according to the position and circumstances of the person. In all cases of alleged poverty the House Surgeon shall determine what remission, if any, shall be made.

9. Any money or other valuables in the possession of a patient, will, at the request of the patient, be taken charge of, otherwise no responsibility will be incurred by the authorities.

10. No persons shall be received as patients whose circumstances enable them to obtain medical attendance elsewhere, nor the wives or children of those who are able to pay for their medical relief. No insane person shall be admitted as an inpatient, nor persons whose cases will allow of the same relief with regard to medicines and advice as outpatients.