Num. 64. 1869

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1904.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1904.

Regulations with respect to Private Hospitals, under Section 18
of “The Public Health Act Amendment Act, 1903.”

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-
fifth day of July, 1904.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

In exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities
vested in him by “The Public Health Act Amendment
Act, 1903,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make
the following regulations for the licensing and inspection of
private hospitals, and doth hereby declare that such regula-
tions shall take effect on and after the first day of August
next.

REGULATIONS.

INTERPRETATION.—“Private hospital” shall mean any house,
building, tent, or place, other than an institution in receipt
of aid from the State, in which persons (hereinafter called
“patients”) are received and lodged, or in which it is in-
tended that they shall be received and lodged, for medical
or surgical treatment or care, and a charge is made for such
treatment, attendance, or care.

1. From and after the coming into operation of these
   regulations no private hospital shall be carried on, used, or
   conducted except under authority of a license duly granted
   under these regulations.

2. Every such license shall be a yearly license, terminating
   on the 31st day of December in each year.

3. Every application for a license shall contain the name
   of the applicant and manager. The applicant shall deposit
   with the District Health Officer complete plans showing the
   number of rooms and the dimensions of each, and the
   number of beds available for patients, the drainage, the
   water-supply, means of ventilation, and the positions of the
   closets and the lavatory conveniences. These must be ap-
   proved by the Minister of Public Health before any license
   be granted, and no alterations from the plans so deposited
   shall be made in any licensed building without his written
   consent. The applicant shall also produce with his applica-
   tion such proof of character and fitness as the Minister of
   Public Health may prescribe from time to time.

4. The fee for registration shall be 5s., payable on the 1st
   day of January in each year: Provided that where applica-
   tion for a license is first made after the 1st day of January
   in any year a license may be issued for the unexpired por-
   tion of that year.

5. Every manager of a licensed hospital shall keep a
   register, which shall be open to the inspection of the Chief
   Health Officer, District Health Officer, or other officer which
   the Governor may direct, in which shall be recorded—
   (a.) The full name, age, and usual residence of every
   patient admitted, and the date of admission.
   (b.) The nature of the ailment or disease.
   The nature of any operation which has been per-
   formed.
   (c.) The date when the patient left the hospital; or, in
   the event of death, the date of such death.

6. No part of a licensed hospital in which patients are
   suffering from any infectious disease (excepting enteric
   fever) shall be used for the reception of patients during or
   immediately after childbirth.

7. Whenever a case of puerperal fever (including all
   puerperal conditions depending on infection) occurs or is
   admitted to a hospital, no lying-in patient shall be admitted
   until the officer of health certify that, in his opinion, there
   is no risk of further infection.

8. Complete disinfection of every room which has been
   occupied by any case of infectious disease shall be performed
   immediately the patient leaves the same.

9. Every licensed hospital which has provision for more
   than twenty patients shall have a mortuary, constructed of
   stone or brick, with cement floors, separate from the main
   building.

10. Every private hospital shall be open to inspection by
    the Chief Health Officer, District Health Officer, or other
    officer whom the Governor may direct.

11. If any person shall commit a breach of, or fail to
    observe, the provisions of these regulations, he shall be
    liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding £20.

LICENSE FOR A PRIVATE HOSPITAL.

Section 18, “Public Health Act Amendment Act, 1903.”
£

A. B., having paid the sum of 5s., is hereby authorised and
licensed to use and conduct the premises described in the
Schedule hereto as a private hospital for the year ending
, 190 , subject to the provisions of “The Public
Health Act, 1900,” and its amendments, and the several
regulations for the time being made and in force thereunder
relating to private hospitals.

Dated this day of , 190 .

SCHEDULE.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.