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MEETINGS.
IV.—(1) The Governing Body shall meet together for the dispatch of business once in every three months or oftener if there is any urgent business to transact on such day and at such hour as the Governing Body shall determine.
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(2) They may adjourn and otherwise regulate their Meetings as they think
(3) Three Members of the Governing Body shall form a Quorum but no Quorum shall be complete unless one of the Trustees of the Will or his Attorney and one other of the Hospital Trustees is present at a Meeting.
(4) One of the Trustees of the Will shall preside as Chairman at all Meetings, and if at any Meeting no such Trustee shall be present in person the members present shall elect another of the Hospital Trustees to preside at such Meeting.
(3) Questions arising at any Meeting shall be decided by a majority of votes
(6) In the event of an equality of votes the Chairman shall have a Second or Casting Vote.
(7) The Governing Body shall cause proper minutes to be made of the pro- ceedings of all Meetings and of the attendance thereat and of all business transacted at such Meetings.
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
V. (1) The Trustees of the Will or their Attorneys as aforesaid shall exercise all the functions of a Finance Committee in connection with the Hospital.
(2) They shall cause true and accurate accounts to be kept of all sums of money expended upon the Hospital and the manner in which such expenditure takes place. They shall keep accurate accounts of its upkeep and annual expendi- tures. They shall lay such accounts with all proper vouchers before Auditora and the accounts when audited and certified shall be submitted to the Governing Body for adoption.
(3) The Trustees of the Will shall manage the Estate of the Testator and shall have under their charge all the accounts, investments and funds of the Hospital.
(4) The Trustees of the Will shall be entitled as from the 16th day of August 1909 to receive out of the income of the Testator's Estate the annual sum of Une thousand dollars each as a remuneration for their trouble and expenses in connection with the administration realization and management of the Testator's Estate.
(5) The Trustees of the Will shall annually appoint Auditors to audit the accounts of the Estate of the Testator, and shall fix the amount of the Auditors' remuneration.
LADY VISITORS,
VI. The Governing Body shall at the first meeting in every year elect four or more Ladies resident in Hongkong to act as Lady Visitors. The duties of the Lady Visitors shall be to attend at the Hospital weekly, if possible, or oftener, at any hour, to visit the l'atients.
ADMISSION.
VII—(1) The Resident Medical Officer shall in all cases enquire into the qualifications of persous who shall be desirous of being relieved as either in or outpatients of the Hospital.
(2) Should the Resident Medical Officer be in doubt as to the admission of any applicant he may take and act upon the advice of any of the Hospital Trustees who
may be available. In urgent cases patients may be admitted by the Resident Medical Officer on his own responsibility in the first instance.
(3) The Hospital Trustees shall have the sole right of deciding as to the suitability of any applicant for admission to the Hospital and as to the continuance in the Hospital of any patient who may have been admitted. And in case of any difference of opinion between the Trustees the decision of the majority shall prevail.
(4) No lunatic and no person suffering from an infectious disease such as small-pox, cholera or plague, shall be admitted. This is not to be understood to exclude cases of typhoid fever, dysentery, &c., such as are admitted into other General Hospitals.
(5) The preceding clause shall not prevent temporary shelter being given n hopeless cases.
(6) No in-patients shall be allowed to remain in the Hospital for longer than four months after admission unless by permission of the Hospital Trustees.
(7) Patients shall be at no expense during their residence in the Hospital. (8) All gratuities by Patients to members of the Staff whether European or Chinese are prohibited.
(9) The Resident Medical Officer, with the approval of the Hospital Trustees, may dismiss a Patient for refusing to obey any of these regulations or any standing order of the Governing Body or declining to follow the medical or surgical directions which have been given.
THE RESIDENT MEDICAL OFFICER.
VIII (1) A Resident Medical Officer shall be appointed to the Hospital by the Governing Body,
(2) He shall be engaged by the Trustees of the Will and his salary and emoluments shall be paid by them.
(3) He shall be a registered Medical Practitioner and shall perform such duties as may be prescribed by the Governing Body from time to time. He shall be a duly qualified Dispenser, Pathologist and Anaesthetist.
(4) He shall enter into such formal agreement for service as the Governing Body shall approve.
(5) He shall devote himself exclusively to the service of the Hospital and shall not in any way whatever either directly or indirectly exercise his profession outside the Hospital without the express consent of the Hospital Trustees.
(6) He shall exercise all the functions of a House Governor and discharge all the duties of a Secretary to the Hospital.
(7) He shall at the beginning of every year draw up and submit to the Governing Body a Report on the working of the Hospital for the preceding year.
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THE MATRON.
IX. (1) A Matron shall be appointed to the Hospital by the Governing
(2) She shall be engaged by the Trustees of the Will who will pay her salary and emoluments.
(3) She shall be a duly qualified Nursing Sister preferably of British nationality, and shall perform such duties as may be prescribed by the Governing Body and by the Resident Medical Officer from time to time.
(4) She shall enter into such formal agreement for service as the Governing Body shall approve.
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