New Zealand Gazette – 1927 – No. 23

Page 1102

✨ Health Regulations



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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 23

  1. The licensee or manager of any private maternity hospital shall notify the Medical Officer of Health, in the form numbered 5 in the Fourth Schedule hereto, of the death of any patient occurring in the private hospital or of the transfer of any patient to another institution for further treatment.

  2. Every medical practitioner who becomes aware that any person attended by him in any private maternity hospital is suffering from puerperal fever, or from any sickness the symptoms of which create a reasonable suspicion that such sickness is puerperal fever, shall notify the licensee or manager at the earliest possible moment of the existence of such fever or sickness.

  3. When notified as provided in Regulation 55 hereof, by the medical practitioner in attendance, that puerperal fever exists or is suspected to exist in any private maternity hospital, the licensee or manager shall promptly notify every medical practitioner attending or engaged to attend any patient either in the private maternity hospital or proposing to enter that hospital during the two weeks next following such notification.

If no medical practitioner is engaged to attend, then the licensee or manager shall notify every patient who proposes to enter the hospital during such two weeks.

  1. In every private maternity hospital which is licensed to admit fifteen patients, or more than fifteen patients, there shall be such provisions for the isolation of patients as the Medical Officer of Health may approve.

  2. The fee to be paid for the grant of a license or for the continuance of the license of a private hospital pursuant to the provisions of section 130 of the said Act shall be—

(a.) For every six beds or under six beds, 10s.

(b.) For every additional six beds or under six beds, 10s.

  1. Every person who commits a breach of any of these regulations shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding £50 or such other penalty as may be enforceable under the said Acts.


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🏥 Regulations under the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1926 (continued from previous page)

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
Hospitals, Private Hospitals, Maternity Hospitals, Regulations, Staffing, Record Keeping, Temperature Charts, Notifications, Fees, Penalties