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Duty to examine candidates

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(z) Medicine shall not be administered to any prisoner without the Medical Officer's instructions except in case of urgent necessity.

153. The Medical Officer shall examine all candidates for employment as subordinate officers or servants of the prison and for employ shall report their suitability as to their physical fitness.

ment.

Duty to submit journal to Commia- sioner.

Duty to submit

annual

report.

Duty to

report use

154. The Medical Officer shall submit his journal for the Commissioner's inspection at least once every three months and shall report at the same time on the condition of the prison and the state of health of the prisoners and officers, recording any want of cleanliness, proper drainage, warmth, ventilation, or any insufficiency or bad quality of the bedding, clothing, provisions

or water.

155. The Medical Officer shall, as soon as possible after the 31st day of March in each year, deliver to the Commissioner for transmission to the Director of Medical and Health Services a report containing-

(e) the number of sick among the prisoners for the year just

ended;

(b) the rate of mortality among the prisoners;

(c) particulars as to the state of the sanitary conditions of

the prisons;

(d) the type of diseases most prevalent in the prisons, and the defects in the construction or management of the prisons to which such diseases may be attributable; (e) the precautions to be taken to prevent the recurrence of

such diseases.

158. The Medical Officer whenever he gives instructions for recard and the use of a strait jacket for the restraint of violent prisoners of restraint. shall record the use of such restraint in his journal and report

its use to the Commissioner.

Duty to conform to

rules and

Commis-

sioner's order, etc.

157. The Medical Officer shall conform to these rules and the Commissioner's orders, and shall support the Superintendent in the maintenance of discipline and order and assist him in the safe custody of the prisoners.

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report as

mental

158. The Medical Officer or, if the prisoner shall have been Duty to

furnish sent to a mental hospital for observation, the medical officer in charge of such hospital shall keep under constant and special to the observation every prisoner confined under sentence of death in condition prison, and shall not later than seven days after the date of the of a

prisoner sentence, submit to the Superintendent a report on such prisoner's under mental condition for immediate transmission to the Governor.

sentence of death.

draw

159. The Medical Officer shall draw the attention of the Duty to Superintendent to any prisoner who he may have reason to think attention of has suicidal intentions in order that special observation may be Super- kept on such prisoner, and the Superintendent shall, without delay, to prisoners direct that such prisoner be observed at frequent intervals.

(ii) Hospital Supervisor.

intendent

with

suicidal intentiona.

180. The Hospital Supervisor shall be on duty at such hours Hours of

duty. as the Commissioner may direct.

acriptions,

181. (1) The Hospital Supervisor shall have the charge and Duty as to custody of all the drugs, surgery stock, surgical instruments and drugs, pre- appliances, and shall be responsible to ensure that they are kept etc. in good and proper arder in accordance with the instructions of the Medical Officer.

(2) He may, if qualified, compound the prescriptions issued by the Medical Officer and shall issue the surgical stock and medicines in accordance with his instructions.

(3) He shall not, except in cases of urgent necessity, issue any medicines or surgical appliances without the sanction of the Medical Officer.

(4) He shall keep a record of the receipt and issue of drugs and shall perform such other clerical work in connexion with his hospital duties as he may be directed.

(5) He shall attend on the Medical Officer as directed and shall give such assistance in the examination of prisoners or in the performance of operations as may be required.

(6) He shall, irrespective of the time, sleep in the prison hospital if required so to do in cases of emergency or serious illness.