THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27th MARCH, 1897.
110. Officers confined to Hospital or otherwise incapacitated from duty from venereal disease or other cause arising from their own indiscretion shall forfeit half their pay during the period of their being so incapacitated.
111. Every officer shall occupy such quarters as may be assigned to him.
112. All officers must understand that their prospects of promotion will depend on the report which their superiors may make as to their quali- fications for, and as to their conduct in, the per- formance of their duties.
113. Any officer who may be suspended for misconduct shall immediately give up his keys and accoutrements and quit the prison, but shall afterwards attend daily at the prison at such hour as the Superintendent may appoint until otherwise directed.
114. An officer shall not make unauthorised
any cornmunication concerning the prison or prisoners to any person whatever, and shall not without authority communicate to the public press informa- tion derived from official sources or connected with his duties or the prison, and any such communication by an officer without authority will be regarded as a breach of confidence and will render him liable to dismissal.
115. A male officer shall not enter the division of the prison appropriated to female prisoners except on duty, nor unless accompanied by a female officer.
116. The foregoing rules are to be understood to apply to servants as well as officers of the prison.
117. All prison officers married or unmarried shall become members of the Officers' Mess on joining the staff and shall observe such rules for conducting the Mess as the Superintendent shall make from time to time. Unmarried officers shall take their meals in the Mess.
THE SURGEON.
118. The Surgeon shall have the medical charge of all the prisoners in the prison, and of their treatment when sick. He shall also give medical advice and assistance, including medicine, to the officers of the prison and their families. He shall report from time to time, as may be directed, upon the sanitary condition of the prison, and health of the prisoners and the prison officers, and in reference to any other point in connection with the maintenance of health in the prison upon which he may be directed to report.
119. The Surgeon shall visit the prison hos- pital every morning (and oftener if necessary) and attend to both the complaining sick and those in the hospital. He shall inspect the newly admitted prisoners and pass them for hard labour or otherwise. He shall visit the punish- ment cells, and see the prisoners confined therein, as also all prisoners before they are put on penal diet.
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120. The Surgeon shall attend without delay at the prison at any hour on being summoned by the Superintendent, who shall be responsible for the reasonableness of the summons.
121. The Surgeon shall enter in a Journal to be kept in the prison-
(a) Any observations or suggestions he may deem it important to make on the diet of prisoners not in hospital. (b) A short daily record of any sick pri- soners under his treatment, whether they are in hospital or not; their names, the nature of their complaints, and the treatment pursued.
(c) His orders for such additional articles of food or clothing as he may deem necessary for the health of any pri- soner not in hospital, and the medi- cal reasons for such orders. Such orders shall be entered in the Super- intendent's Daily Return, and sub- mitted to the Governor.
122. The Surgeon shall visit prisoners in separate cells who have given notice to the Su- perintendent that they are unwell and wish to see a doctor.
123. No medicine shall be administered to any prisoner without the Surgeon's orders.
124. The Surgeon shall regulate the hours of exercise and of labour of prisoners out of health.
125. The Surgeon shall examine every pri- soner sentenced to corporal punishment before the punishment is inflicted, and shall be present while it is being carried out. He shall give such orders for preventing injury to health as he may deem necessary and it shall be the duty of the Superintendent to carry them into effect.
126. The Surgeon shall examine the food pro- vided for the prisoners, and inspect every prisoner weekly, and daily when epidemic disease exists in the neighbourhood.
127. The Surgeon shall give written directions for separating prisoners having infectious com- plaints, or suspected of having them; and for cleansing, disinfecting, or destroying any infected apparel or bedding.
128. The Surgeon shall report to the Superin- tendent the case of any prisoner about to be discharged who may be suffering from acute or dangerous discase; in which case the prisoner need not be discharged, unless he demand it.
129. The Hospital Warders shall be under the immediate orders of the Surgeon, and shall be present at such times, and perform such duties as he may require from them, consistently with their position in the prison.
130. The Superintendent shall place at the disposal of the Surgeon well conducted prisoners, who can safely be entrusted with the duty of attending upon the sick, not exceeding in number one to every ten patients.