APRIL 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1101

(e.) In the case of a private hospital licensed both as a maternity hospital and as a surgical and medical hospital, the staffing in respect of each side of the hospital shall be in accordance with the scale hereinbefore provided in respect of each class of hospital.

(f.) In every private maternity hospital and every private medical and surgical hospital, in addition to the requirements as to staff under the preceding paragraphs of this regulation, there shall be employed adequate help to the satisfaction of the Assistant Inspector of Hospitals.

(2.) The employment of a registered midwife in any case in lieu of a maternity nurse shall satisfy the requirements of these regulations as to the employment of maternity nurses.

43. In every private hospital intended for the admission of five or more patients there shall be provided apparatus for the sterilization of gowns, dressings, towels, and the like, and in every private maternity hospital there shall also be provided appliances for the treatment of shock or hæmorrhage, in both cases to the approval of the Assistant Inspector of Hospitals.

44. No room licensed for the reception of patients shall be used by any member of the family, or by any boarder, or by any lodger, or by any visitor, or by any infant, except in the case of an infant admitted for the purpose of receiving treatment.

45. It shall be an offence against these regulations for the licensee or manager of any private hospital at which any notifiable infectious disease has arisen or has been treated to admit any patient for treatment in such hospital until the Medical Officer of Health certifies that in his opinion there is no risk of further infection.

46. It shall be an offence against these regulations for the licensee or manager of any private hospital to permit any patient to occupy a room or to use the equipment of a room which has been previously occupied by a patient suffering from any infectious disease unless such room and equipment, subsequent to the removal of such person, have been disinfected under the direction of an officer authorized in that behalf by the Medical Officer of Health.

47. It shall be an offence against these regulations for the licensee or manager of any private maternity hospital to permit any maternity patient to occupy a room or to use the equipment of a room which has been previously occupied or used by a woman presenting symptoms of morbidity unless such room and equipment, subsequent to the removal of such woman, have been disinfected in accordance with any instructions issued by the Medical Officer of Health, or in the absence of such instructions, as prescribed in the Fifth Schedule hereto.

48. (a.) No person shall attend any patient in a private hospital if such person is or has within the last seven days been in attendance as nurse on a case of infectious disease, or a case which may reasonably be suspected to be a case of infectious disease, whether in the same or another hospital or elsewhere, unless with the approval of the medical attendant in charge of such patient, and after taking such precautions as to personal disinfection as he may prescribe.

(b.) No person shall attend any maternity patient in a private hospital if such person is or has within twenty-four hours been in attendance as nurse on a case of disease of a suppurative character, whether in the same or another hospital or elsewhere, unless with the approval of the medical practitioner in charge of such maternity patient, and after taking such precautions as to personal disinfection as he may prescribe.

(c.) No person shall attend any maternity patient if such person is or has within the last seven days been in attendance as nurse on a case of infectious disease, or a case of notifiable infectious disease, or a case which may reasonably be suspected to be a case of infectious disease or notifiable infectious disease, whether in the same or another hospital or elsewhere, until the Medical Officer of Health has certified that such person may do so.

49. No licensee or manager of a private hospital shall admit any maternity patient before the onset of labour, except as a patient awaiting confinement or for the purpose of receiving treatment for any of the complications of pregnancy necessitating medical treatment.

50. Except in a case of emergency no licensee or manager of a private maternity hospital shall admit any patient suffering from the effects of a recent abortion or miscarriage, and where such admission is made the licensee or manager shall notify the Medical Officer of Health in the form numbered 2 in the Fourth Schedule hereto. For the purposes of this paragraph abortion or miscarriage shall be deemed to mean the birth of the foetus before the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy.

51. No licensee or manager of any private maternity hospital shall admit any patient for curettage or for any surgical operation upon the cervix uteri, or perineum.

52. Should any patient in any private hospital become mentally defective the licensee or manager shall forthwith notify the Medical Officer of Health in the form numbered 3 in the Fourth Schedule hereto.

53. The licensee or manager of any private maternity hospital shall forthwith notify the Medical Officer of Health, in the form numbered 4 in the Fourth Schedule hereto, of any case in which puerperal pyrexia has occurred.