May 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1661

in cases are received and lodged, or in which it is intended that they shall be received and lodged, for treatment, attendance, or care, and a charge is made for such treatment, attendance, or care.

1. (1.) No private hospital shall be carried on, used, or conducted except under the authority of a license granted by the Minister.

(2.) Every person who commits a breach of this section is liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.

2. (1.) Every application for a license shall be addressed to the Minister, and shall state the full name, place of abode, and occupation of the applicant.

(2.) Such application shall be accompanied by a fee of ten shillings, and, except in the case of renewals, by—

(a.) A statement of the number of patients proposed to be received into the house ;

(b.) A plan of the house on a scale of not less than the eighth of an inch to the foot;

(c.) A description of the situation thereof;

(d.) If a building of two or more stories, a description of the means of escape in case of fire ;

(e.) A statement of the length, breadth, and height of, and a reference by a figure or letter to, every room and apartment therein ;

(f.) A statement of the rooms to be used exclusively by the patients and those to be used exclusively by the licensee and his family or by the manager and his family ;

(g.) A full statement of the sanitary arrangements, particularly with regard to ventilation, drainage, and water-supply ; and

(h.) A statement as to the class of cases intended to be received, whether lying-in cases or surgical and medical cases, or both.

(3.) The plans must be approved by the Minister before any license be granted, and no alteration of the plans shall be made in any licensed building without his written consent.

The applicant shall also produce with his application such proof of character and fitness as the Minister may prescribe.

4. (1.) The fee payable for a license and for every renewal thereof shall be ten shillings.

(2.) The license shall continue in force until the thirty-first day of December next after the date thereof, unless it is previously revoked as hereinafter mentioned.

5. (1.) For every private hospital there shall be a resident manager, who may be either the licensee or some person appointed by the licensee ; and in every case the manager shall be either a legally qualified medical practitioner, or

(a.) A registered nurse in the case of a surgical and medical hospital ; or

(b.) A registered midwife in the case of a lying-in hospital ; or

(c.) A registered nurse and midwife, or a registered nurse having as resident assistant a registered midwife, in the case of a hospital licensed for both purposes.

(d.) For every six patients there must be a registered nurse or midwife.

(2.) The full name and qualification of every person intended to be appointed from time to time under subsection (c) shall be submitted by the licensee to the Minister for approval.

6. (1.) The manager of a private hospital shall be deemed to be the occupier of the house for the purposes of—

(a.) Giving notice under section twenty-six of “The Public Health Act, 1900,” of any patient found or suspected to be sick of any infectious disease ;

(b.) Giving information under “The Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1875,” of the death of any patient or of the birth of any child in the hospital.

(2.) If the manager of any private hospital fails to give any such notice or information he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds in lieu of that imposed by the said section twenty-six.

7. (1.) In every private hospital there shall be kept in the prescribed form a Register of Patients, in which shall from time to time be entered—

(a.) The name, age, and usual place of abode of every patient admitted, and the date of admission ;

(b.) The nature of the ailment or disease, and the nature of any operation which has been performed ;

(c.) The name of the medical practitioner (if any) in attendance ;

(d.) The date when the patient left the hospital, or, in the event of death, the date thereof ;

(e.) Such other particulars as may be prescribed.

(2.) The manager shall enter such particulars in the Register at least once in every week in the manner and form prescribed, and no one shall be allowed to inspect such Register but the person or persons authorised so to do under “The Hospital and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885.”

(3.) Every person required by regulations to make any such entry who knowingly suppresses any material fact, or enters any particulars that are untrue, is liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.

8. Every private hospital, and every part thereof, together with the Register of Patients hereinbefore mentioned, shall at all times be open to inspection in the same manner and by the same persons as in the case of institutions under “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885.” Such persons shall have power to make inquiries, visit, and thoroughly inspect any house suspected or reported to take in cases for gain.

9. (1.) A private hospital shall not during the currency of its license be used for any other purpose than that for which it is licensed.

(2.) No part of a licensed hospital in which patients are suffering from an infectious disease shall be used for the reception of patients during or immediately after confinement.

(3.) Whenever a case of puerperal fever or other form of septic disease occurs or is admitted to a hospital, no lying-in patient shall be admitted until the medical officer certify that in his opinion there is no risk of further infection.

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

(5.) It shall be unlawful for a nurse attending on such a case to attend any other case without undergoing complete disinfection, and without the written authority of a medical practitioner that he (or she) is satisfied with the precautions taken to prevent the further spread of infection.

10. 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.

11. (1.) No private hospital shall undertake to train probationary nurses in general nursing.

(2.) A private hospital for midwifery cases containing ten beds may be used as a training-school for midwives on compliance with regulations approved by the Registrar of Midwives. Each pupil nurse must attend twenty cases in labour and deliver not less than twenty cases. She must also nurse for the ten days succeeding labour at least twenty cases. She must attend a course of lectures at one of the State maternity hospitals or lectures given by a legally qualified medical practitioner, in the case of a registered nurse for a term of six months, or in other cases for twelve months.

(3.) No private hospital shall so undertake to train midwives without having applied for and obtained permission from the Registrar of Midwives.

12. (1.) 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 twenty pounds.

(2.) The Minister may, if he thinks fit, after inquiry, revoke the license granted in respect of the private hospital, and in such case no new license shall be granted to the person whose license is so revoked for a period not exceeding five years from the date of such revocation.

LICENSE FOR A PRIVATE HOSPITAL.

Section 3, “Private Hospitals Act, 1906.”

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 Private Hospitals Act, 1906,” 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 .

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Whangarei Fire District defined.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of May, 1907.

Present :

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section thirty of “The Fire Brigades Act, 1906” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that the Governor may by Order in Council from time to time, on application of any Borough Council, declare any area under the control of such Borough Council to be a fire district under the said Act: And whereas such