APRIL 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1099

32. (a.) At a meeting to be held during the month of April in each year the Board shall review all debts, in respect of persons assisted, owing to the Board at the close of the previous financial year, and, after due and proper inquiry, shall cause to be prepared a schedule in respect of the amounts that are in their opinion irrecoverable :—
    (i.) The register or case number of the patient.
    (ii.) The name of the person responsible for fees.
    (iii.) The amount considered to be irrecoverable.
    (iv.) Briefly, the reason for amount being irrecoverable.

The amounts indicated as irrecoverable shall forthwith, by resolution of the Board, be written off, and be deemed for the purpose of the annual accounts to have been written off in respect of the financial year to which the schedule relates, and shall be deducted from the amount owing.

(b.) From the total amount then owing the total amount of the debts deemed to be of doubtful value shall be deducted, and such amount shall be shown clearly in the balance-sheet, together with the amount owing and deemed to be recoverable.

(c.) The total amount of fees written off as irrecoverable and allowed as a reduction in the scale of fees as provided in Regulation 31, shall be debited separately to an account termed “Hospital Relief Account.”

(d.) Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained the Board may also, if it thinks fit, from time to time during any financial year carry out any of the provisions of this regulation in respect of any portion of such year, and the annual schedule may then be prepared in accordance therewith.

33. Each Board shall, not later than the 1st day of May in each year, forward to the Director-General of Health a copy of such statement of income and expenditure and balance-sheet in the form set out in the First Schedule hereto, whether the same shall have been audited or not, and a copy in duplicate thereof shall be forwarded to the Director-General of Health as soon as may be after it has been duly audited.

34. Each Board shall further keep such records as shall enable it to supply the returns set out in the Second Schedule hereto, and shall furnish the Director-General of Health with this information not later than the 1st day of May in each year. Each Board shall, if required to do so, keep such records as will show clearly any further information that may be required by the Director-General.

35. Each Board shall keep for each of its institutions a proper record of stores received and given out, in such form as is suited to the requirements of each institution.

36. Any excess of income over expenditure for each year ended the 31st day of March shall be converted to income for the year commencing on the 1st day of April following.

37. These regulations shall apply also to separate institutions under the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1926.

Private Hospitals.

38. (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 Regulations 46 and 48 includes any of the diseases mentioned in Part A of the Third Schedule hereto.

(c.) “Notifiable infectious disease” for the purposes of Regulations 45 and 48 includes any of the diseases in Part B of the Third Schedule hereto.

(d.) Morbidity shall be deemed to be present, in the case of the lying-in woman, if at any time during her stay in hospital before or within twenty-one days after childbirth she has suffered from a febrile condition in which her temperature has risen to 100° F. or more on any two occasions, or has been sustained at 100° F. or more during a period of twenty-four hours.

(e.) “Puerperal pyrexia” means any febrile condition (other than a condition which is required to be notified as puerperal fever) occurring in a woman within twenty-one days after childbirth or miscarriage in which a temperature of 100·4° F. or more has been sustained during a period of twenty-four hours, or has recurred during that period.

39. Every application for a license to keep a private hospital shall be in the form numbered 1 in the Fourth Schedule hereto.

40. (a.) 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 139 of the said Act:—
    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 anaesthetic; by whom anaesthetic 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; certified cause of death.

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