MIDWIVES.

No. 22 of 1910.

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qualified to practise midwifery, or are recognised by law as midwives, or have studied modern or European midwifery.

14. In this Ordinance,

Interpreta-tion.

(a) "Certified" means certified under this Ordinance.

(b) "Midwife" means a woman who is certified.

No. 23 of 1910, incorporated in No. 2 of 1898.

No. 24 of 1910.

An Ordinance to provide for the segregation and treatment (Originally

of lepers.

No. 24 of 1910.

[2nd September, 1910.]

Law Rev. Ord., 1924.]

*

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Lepers Ordinance, Short title. 1910.

*

establish

2. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to appoint Governor in such places as he shall think fit to be leper asylums for the Council may segregation and treatment of lepers; and every such asylum leper shall comprise such area as the Governor shall define by asylums, proclamation. No leper asylum shall be established by any private person.

[s. 3, rep. No. 12 of 1912.]

build

separate

4. Any person detained as a leper in a leper asylum may epers may by the special permission of the Governor erect or cause to be erected for himself a dwelling-house at his own expense dwellings within the limits of the asylum in which he is detained, in asylum subject to such conditions as to plan, site, drainage, and own use. otherwise as to the Governor shall seem fit.

5. It shall be the duty of every person having knowledge Duty of per- sons to give of a leper or of a person reasonably suspected of being a information leper in any place outside the limits of any leper asylum, to of existence give information thereof to the officer in charge of a police of lepers. station, who shall forthwith report the same to the Principal Civil Medical Officer.

* As amended by Law Rev, Ord., 1924.

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