Rules regarding medical treatment.
Prohibi- tion of aleeping out.
Application
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138. (1) Medical treatment and sick leave may be granted to or withheld from subordinate officers under the provisions of General Orders of the Government.
(2) Every officer of the Prisons Department received into hospital for observation and who is subsequently certified to be malingering shall receive no pay, for the period during which he was under observation, and all hospital expenses and charges incidental thereto shall be paid by such officer.
(3) Subordinate officers shall go into hospital when ordered to do so by the Medical Officer and shall remain in hospital so long as the Medical Officer in charge of the hospital directs. They shalt, while in hospital, obey all hospital regulations.
139. () Subordinate officers shall not sleep out of such quarters as the Government may assign to them without the permission of a Superintendent.
(2) If a subordinate officer is discharged, dismissed or resigns he shall immediately give up the quarters he has occupied.
(3) A subordinate officer occupying Government quarters shall not let lodgings therein.
140. Rules 132 to 138 inclusive shall apply to all other persons of rules 132 employed in the prisons.
to 138 to
persona
employed
in prisons.
General duties.
(d) Medical.
() Medical Officer.
141. The Medical Officer shall→
(a) have the medical charge and shall be responsible for the treatment when sick of all the prisoners in a prison;
(b) give medical advice and assistance, including medicines, to the officers of the Prisons Department and their families;
(c) keep such statistical records and furnish such returns and reports as may be ordered by the Commissioner relative to the health and medical treatment of such officers and prisoners, the sanitary conditions of a prison and of the quarters occupied by such officers.
142. The Medical Officer shall-
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(a) visit every prison under his charge at times to be arranged by the Commissioner, or at such other times as may be
necessary;
(b) every day see such of the prisoners who complain of illness and report in writing to the Superintendent their fitness or otherwise for labour;
(c) for the information of the Superintendent, enter in a book kept for that purpose all directions which he may deem necessary to give relative to the treatment of any prisoner not admitted to the hospital;
(d) make daily visits to the sick in the prison hospital;
(e) attend at once any officer of the Prisons Department or prisoner on the receipt of information that he is seriously
(f) make daily visits to all prisoners undergoing punishment, in separate confinement, or under special discipline;
(g) make daily examinations of the newly admitted prisoners
and pass them fit for labour or otherwise;
(h) frequently examine the washing-places, baths and other provision for purposes of cleanliness and sanitation to ensure the efficient working thereof, and report forthwith all defects in connexion therewith to the Superintendent;
(1) immediately before punishment is inflicted examine the prisoner and satisfy himself that he is both mentally and physically fit to undergo punishment, and shall make such recommendations for preventing injury to the prisoner's health as he may deem necessary, and the Superintendent shall carry such recommendations into effect;
() attend on every occasion when corporal punishment is inflicted in the prison, and ensure obedience of his instructions for the prevention of injury to the health of a prisoner;
(k) attend every execution,
Duty to prisoners.
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