128. The Surgeon shall report to the Superintendent the case of any prisoner about to be discharged who may be suffering from acute or dangerous disease; in which case the prisoner shall 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.
131. The Surgeon shall report to the Superintendent any irregularity in the prison hospital which may come to his knowledge, or any difficulty or obstruction which he may meet with in the performance of his duty.
132. The Surgeon shall examine all candidates for employment as subordinate officers or servants of the Prison, and report whether they possess the necessary qualifications as to health and strength.
133. The Surgeon shall take care that all medicines and stimulants are properly locked up, and are not accessible to any prisoner; and, when there is no paid dispenser, he shall issue day by day to the Hospital Warder all medicines and stimulants to be administered in his absence.
134. The Surgeon's Journal shall be laid before the Governor at least once in each quarter of the year, and he shall report at the same time on the condition of the prison and the health of the prisoners and officers, recording any want of cleanliness, proper drainage, warmth, ventilation, or any insufficiency or bad quality of bedding, clothing, provisions, or water.
136. The Surgeon shall deliver to the Colonial Surgeon, as soon as possible after the close of December in each year, a report in which shall be detailed the number of sick among the prisoners during the year just closed, the mortality, the sanitary condition of the prison, and what diseases have been most prevalent therein. He shall point out any defects in the construction or management of the prison to which such sickness may be attributed, and also what precautions should be taken to prevent the same.
137. The Surgeon shall conform to the rules and regulations of the prison, and shall support the Superintendent in the maintenance of discipline and order and the safe custody of the prisoners.
138. Any directions relative to the health of any prisoner, not being under medical treatment in the hospital, shall be entered by the Surgeon in a book which shall be submitted to the Superintendent.
139 is missing, instead there is 188. The use of the strait jacket for the restraint of a prisoner under treatment in the hospital only, and of ankle straps for the restraint of a violent female prisoner, may be authorised by the Surgeon alone, who shall record the use of such restraints in his journal and report the same to the Superintendent.
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