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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 65

318. Prisoners suffering from any contagious or infectious disease shall be kept strictly apart
     from the other prisoners, and all instructions issued by the Medical Officer shall be rigidly adhered
     to. They shall not use a plunge-bath unless such bath is specially reserved for infectious cases, but
     either a shower or sponge bath.

319. Prisoners who desire to see the Medical Officer must give their names before breakfast to
     the officer of their division, to be by him given to the Controlling Officer. Officers will also make a
     report to the Controlling Officer of the name of any prisoner who, in their opinion, should consult the
     Medical Officer.

320. All directions or recommendations made by the Medical Officer are to be entered by him
     in his Journal, and shall at once be given effect to by the Controlling Officer, who shall enter opposite
     the direction or recommendation in the Medical Journal when and how such direction or recommendation
     was given effect to, and any remarks he may deem fit to make.

321. Prisoners employed at work in the prison workshops shall exercise in the open air for
     fifteen minutes before commencing labour in the morning, and fifteen minutes after the conclusion
     of the day's labour in the afternoon, or oftener if the Medical Officer deems it necessary.

322. Every prisoner not employed shall exercise two hours every forenoon and two hours every
     afternoon (weather permitting), or for a longer or shorter time, as the Medical Officer may deem
     necessary for his health.

323. In every prison, when practicable, a hospital shall be provided for the reception of sick
     prisoners.

324. All prisoners shall be examined by the Medical Officer prior to their being removed to
     another prison, and no prisoner shall be so removed unless the Medical Officer has certified in his
     Journal that the prisoner is medically fit for removal. Nothing in this regulation shall be deemed to
     prohibit the removal of any prisoner to a public hospital.

Orderlies and Cleaners.

325. Such prisoners as the Controlling Officer thinks fit may be employed as orderlies and cleaners
     in any prison.

326. No orderly, cleaner, or other prisoner shall have access to the cell of any other prisoner
     except under the supervision of an officer; and it shall be the duty of such officer to see that no
     prisoner under his charge places any contraband article in any other prisoner's cell, abstracts any
     article therefrom, or in any way commits a breach of the prison order or discipline.

327. Cleaners may be allowed into the quarters of officers sleeping within the prison for the
     purposes of sweeping, scrubbing, and washing, or of moving heavy articles; but no such cleaners
     are to be admitted to the officers' quarters except under the effective supervision of an officer.

328. The Controlling Officer shall provide that all orderlies and cleaners have their time fully
     occupied.

329. No prisoner is to be employed as an orderly or cleaner who is suffering from any contagious
     or infectious disease.

Cooks.

330. Such prisoners as the Controlling Officer thinks fit may be employed as cooks in any prison.

331. The cooks are to be in such numbers as shall from time to time be directed.

332. They shall be held responsible that the prisoners' rations are properly cooked and distributed
     according to the direction of the Controlling Officer.

333. They shall be required to have the cookhouse, cooking-utensils, tables, mess-kits, pails, &c.,
     at all times properly cleansed and kept in their proper places.

334. They are to be employed during spare time in such work as the Controlling Officer may
     allot to them.

335. No prisoner is to be employed as a cook who is suffering from any disease.

PART XI.-TREATMENT OF PRISONERS ACCORDING TO CLASSIFICATION.

336. Prisoners shall be classified primarily into the following divisions, viz.:--

(a.) Prisoners awaiting trial (including prisoners on remand).

(b.) Debtors (including all persons described in section 11 of the Prisons Act, 1908).

(c.) Misdemeanants of the First Division.

(d.) Misdemeanants of the Second Division (including other prisoners sentenced for a term
but not to hard labour).

(e.) Prisoners sentenced to hard labour.

(f.) Prisoners sentenced to reformatory detention with or without a head sentence.

(g.) Prisoners who have been declared habitual criminals or habitual offenders with or without a head sentence.

(h.) Prisoners under sentence of death.

(i.) Prisoners sentenced to corporal punishment without imprisonment for a term.

337. Prisoners in classes (a), (b), (c), and (d) shall be kept entirely separate from other prisoners.

338. Interclassification in regard to the various classes, and the manner in which prisoners are to
     be allocated to any class in such interclassification, may be prescribed from time to time by general
     order.

Prisoners awaiting Trial or on Remand.

339. Prisoners before trial may, by permission of the Controller-General, be allowed to retain
     in their possession any books or documents belonging to them at the time of their arrest which may