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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH MAY, 1899.
Duties as to visiting prison and prisoners.
Duties as to punishment of prisoners.
Duties as to
food.
and furnish such returns and reports as may be directed relative to the health and medical treat- ment of officers and prisoners, and to the sanitary condition of the quarters of the officers, and of the prison buildings.
108.-(1.) He shall visit the prison at least once every day, and shall see every prisoner at least once a week, so as to ascertain his general state of health, and whether he is clean in his person and free from disease.
(2.) He shall every day see such prisoners as complain of illness, reporting to the Assistant Superintendent in writing their fitness or other- wise for labour. He shall enter in a book kept for the purpose, for the information of the As- sistant Superintendent, such directions as he may deem necessary relative to the treatment of any prisoner not admitted to the Hospital. He shall daily visit the sick in the prison hospital at such times as may be necessary. He shall attend at once on receiving information of the serious ill- ness of any prisoner or officer.
(3.) He shall daily visit all prisoners under- going punishment or under special discipline.
(4.) He shall examine daily the newly admit- ted prisoners and pass them for hard labour or otherwise.
(5.) He shall frequently examine the washing places, baths, and other provision for purposes of cleanliness or sanitation, and see whether they are in efficient working order, and report at once to the Superintendent any defect or insufficiency therein.
(6.) Before a prisoner is subjected to corporal or any other form of punishment, the Medical Officer shall examine him and certify whether or not he is fit for the punishment.
(7.) He shall attend every corporal punish- ment inflicted in the prison, and his instructions thereon for preventing injury to health shall be obeyed.
109. He shall frequently examine the food of inspection of the prisoners cooked and uncooked, and shall report to the Assistant Superintendent as to the quality of the provisions, and also as to the suffi- ciency of clothing, bedding, any deficiency in the quality or defect in the quantity of the water, or any other cause which may affect the health of the prisoners.
Duties as to infectious
cases.
Duties as to special reports regarding prisoners.
110. He shall give written directions for sepa rating prisoners having infectious complaints, or suspected of having them; and for cleansing, disinfecting, or destroying any infected apparel or bedding.
111.--(1.) The Medical Officer shall report in writing to the Assistant Superintendent the case of any prisoner to which he thinks it necessary on medical grounds to draw attention, and shall make such recommendation as he deems needful for the alteration of the discipline or treatment of the prisoners, or for the supply of additional articles to the prisoners.
(2.) Whenever the Medical Officer is of opinion that the life of any prisoner will be endangered by his continuance in prison, or that any sick person will not survive his sentence, or