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Enclosure No. 1.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. 556. The scale of charges for medical treatment in the Government hos- pitals and asylums published in the Gazette on the 24th day of December, 1909, as Notification No. 820 is hereby cancelled and the following scales are substituted therefor, with effect from the 1st January, 1927.
SCALE OF CHARGES FOR MAITENANCE AND MEDICAL TREATMENT IN GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS (OTHER THAN THE PEAK HOSPITAL) AND ASYLUMS.
Naval small-pox Patients.
Naval officers and men treated in Kennedy Town Hospital are charged $2 a day.
Other naval and military patients are charged in accordance with the following scale for other patients.
PATIENTS.
Scale of Charges.
Private patients..
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(Asiatic on European diet)
(Asiatic not on European diet)..
DAILY RATES.
1ST
CLASS.
2ND CLASS.
3RD CLASS.
CA
CA
$
8.00
5.00
2.00
2.00
0.50
European lunatics, landed from ships on consular or
ship's agent's guarantee
Asiatic lunatics, landed from ships on consular or ship's
agent's guarantee :-
(a) on European diet
(b) not on European diet.....
Lunatics sent in by Board of Trade :-
class.
(a) European and American..
(b) Asiatic
5.00
2.00
0.50
2.00
0.50
Children under twelve years of age are charged at half the foregoing rates in each
Private patients other than Government or naval or military patients charged 1st or 2nd class daily rates for maintenance will be subject to the following additional charges :--
(1) For medical attendance, a charge at the rate of one third of the rate for
maintenance.