1100
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 23

(b.) 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 139 of the said Act:—
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 anaesthetics 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; whether at full time or premature; what precautions (if any) taken for infant’s eyes; how infant is fed—(i) breast, or (ii) breast and artificial, or (iii) artificial; date of discharge, and condition of patient on discharge from hospital; weight and condition of child on discharge; if instrumental or special treatment given at delivery, give details; if transferred to another hospital, reason for transfer; in case of death of mother or child, state date and certified cause.

(c.) These Registers of Patients shall be in a book in the form approved by the Director-General.

(d.) At the termination of a period of twelve months after the date of the last entry in the Register-book, or at the demand of the Medical Officer of Health, every such Register-book shall be forwarded by the licensee or manager to the Medical Officer of Health.

(e.) In the event of a license being transferred, the person to whom such transfer is made shall forward the Register-book to the Medical Officer of Health in the manner and at the time prescribed in the last preceding paragraph.

(f.) In the event of a license being revoked or otherwise terminated the licensee shall forthwith forward the Register-books to the Medical Officer of Health.

41. (a.) The temperature charts to be kept in accordance with the provisions of section 140 of the said Act shall—
    (i.) Be of a type approved by the Director-General;
    (ii.) Record daily the temperature of every patient in the hospital as it was between the hours of 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. and the hours of 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., and, in the case of maternity hospitals, the highest temperature observed in each twenty-four hours of the puerperium; and
    (iii.) Be produced on the demand of any authorized officer of the Department of Health.

(b.) In every medical or surgical hospital the temperature chart shall be retained by the licensee for a period of not less than twelve months after the patient to whom it refers has been discharged from the hospital.

(c.) In every maternity hospital the temperature chart of each patient in the hospital shall be so kept as to be available for inspection by any medical practitioner who is in attendance on a patient in that hospital, and on the discharge or death of any patient the temperature chart relating to such patient shall be reattached to the Register-book in the approved manner.

42. (1.) The licensee of every private hospital shall comply with the following requirements in regard to the staffing of the hospital:—

(a.) In the case of a private medical and surgical hospital at which the maximum number of patients receivable does not exceed five, no other registered nurse than the one required by section 137 of the said Act need be employed.

(b.) In the case of a private medical and surgical hospital at which the maximum number of patients receivable exceeds five, one registered nurse shall be employed in respect of every five patients; and if the maximum number is not exactly divisible by five, one additional nurse for the patients in excess of five or a multiple of five, as the case may be. In computing the number of nurses to be employed the registered nurse required by section 137 of the principal Act to be resident at the hospital may be counted as one of the prescribed number.

(c.) In the case of a private maternity hospital at which the maximum number of patients receivable does not exceed four, no other midwife or maternity nurse other than the registered midwife required by section 137 of the said Act need be employed.

(d.) In the case of a private maternity hospital at which the maximum number of patients receivable exceeds four there shall be employed, in addition to the registered midwife required by section 137 of the said Act to be in residence at the hospital, one registered maternity nurse for every four patients in excess of the first four. If the maximum number is not exactly divisible by four there shall be an additional registered maternity nurse employed in respect of any patients in excess of four or a multiple of four. If the maximum number of patients receivable exceeds twelve there shall be employed, in addition to the midwife and maternity nurses hereinbefore provided for, a registered midwife for every twelve patients in addition to the first twelve. If the maximum number is not exactly divisible by twelve an additional registered midwife shall be employed in respect of any patients in excess of twelve or a multiple of twelve.