Private Hospital Regulations (H. 122).

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 13th day of May, 1924.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on him by section one hundred and twenty-seven of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, and by section twenty-nine of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Amendment Act, 1923 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Acts”), His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the regulations made under the Private Hospitals Act, 1906, on the twenty-seventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and gazetted on the thirtieth day of the same month, and in lieu thereof doth make the following regulations for the carrying-out of the provisions of the said Acts with respect to private hospitals.

REGULATIONS.

1. (a.) “Medical Officer of Health” means the Medical Officer of Health for the health district in which the private hospital is situated.
   (b.) “Infectious disease” for the purpose of paragraphs 7 and 9 of these regulations includes any of the diseases mentioned in Part A of the First Schedule hereto.
   (c.) “Notifiable infectious disease” for the purposes of paragraphs 6 and 9 of these regulations includes any of the diseases in Part B of the First Schedule hereto.
   (d.) Morbidity shall be deemed to be present, in the case of the lying-in woman, when the temperature reaches 100° F. on any two days between the second and the tenth days of the puerperium.
   •2. (a.) Every application for a license to keep a private hospital shall be in the form numbered l in the Second Schedule hereto.
   (b.) The licensee or manager of a private medical and surgical hospital shall enter or cause to be entered the following particulars in the Register of Patients, including and in addition to the particulars prescribed in section 119 of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909:
   Name (in full): Age: Sex:
   Married or single:
   Usual residence:
   Date of admission:
   Nature of ailment or disease:
   Name of medical practitioner attending:
   Nature of operation (if any):
   Date of operation:
   Nature of anæsthetic:
   By whom anæsthetic administered:
   Date when patient left the hospital:
   Condition on discharge: If transferred to another hospital, state reason for transfer; in the case of death give the date of same.
   The certified cause of death:
   (c.) The licensee or manager of a private maternity hospital shall enter or cause to be entered the following particulars in the Register of Patients, including and in addition to the particulars prescribed in section 119 of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909:
   Name (in full): Age: Usual residence:
   Date of admission:
   Number of previous pregnancies:
   Number of children alive:
   Date of confinement:
   Name of medical practitioner attending:
   If anæsthetics have been administered, and by whom:
   Highest temperature reached during puerperium:
   Sex of infant, or infants, and weight at birth:
   Whether infant born alive or dead;