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C.O. 882

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Withdrawal

of hospital.

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193. If at any time the accommodation afforded of certificate in any such hospital shall fall short of that required by this Ordinance as aforesaid, or such hospital shall appear to be for any reason unfitted for the purpose of and improper to be used as a certificated hospital, the medical attendant of the estate, the medical officer of the Immigration Depart- ment, or any inspector of immigrants, shall report the circumstances of the case to the Protector of Immigrants, who, subject to the right of appeal here- in-after provided, shall have power to withdraw, after conference with the employer, the certificate of such hospital, and if such employer shall not within 6 months of the withdrawal of such certificate or within such further period as the Governor shall allow, have provided some other building proper to be certified as a hospital under this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Executive Council to direct the Protector of Immigrants to remove all or any of the servants from such plantation, and to transfer any of them for the unexpired portion of their contracts of service to any other employer who is willing to accept their

Hospital, of what mate- rial may

be con-

structed.

services.

194. All hospitals to be certified may be built of stone planking or palisades, and may be roofed with tiles, shingles, slate, thatch, or metal; provided that in the last-mentioned case there be a ceiling under- neath the roofing with proper means of ventilation.

(2.) Every hospital shall be so arranged as to allow at least 60 square feet and 500 cubic feet imperial standard measure for each bed.

of labou-

(3.) It shall be separated from any camp rers, and be completely inclosed by a fence, to the satisfaction of the Protector of Immigrants or medical officer of the Immigration Department, as certified by him.

(4.) It shall contain at all times sufficient accom- modation and beds or other sleeping places for at least the following proportion of servants, the number and sufficiency to be certified as aforesaid, viz., three per centum on the number of the servants engaged at the time; but provided that in no case shall the hospital contain beds or sleeping places for fewer

than four servants.

(5.) It shall be capable of affording separate ac- commodation for male and female patients, and be provided with medicines aud medical comforts of suitable kinds, quantities, and qualities respectively, to the satisfaction of the Protector of Immigrants, after receiving the report of the medical officer of the estate, and making such further inquiries as he may consider necessary.

(6.) It shall be provided with hospital attendants, qualified for the duty of attending to the sick, such attendants being certified by the medical officer aforesaid.

(7.) It may consist of either one building, or of two or more separate buildings.

(8.) It shall be reserved exclusively for the pur poses of an hospital.

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(9.) It shall have a supply of water to the satis- faction of the Protector of Immigrants.

195. The requirements of the preceding article Provisions shall apply to all hospitals already existing upon to apply to estates, but any hospital now existing shall be held already existing sufficient under the provisions of this Ordinance, so hospitals. far as relates to the matters specified in paragraphs

1, 2, and 7. Every such hospital, however, shall be required to comply with paragraphs 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9.

to be pro-

196. In case of any epidemic or infectious disease Additional breaking out among the servants in any sugar estate, hospital ac- or other plantation or factory, and of the Protector of commodation Immigrants upon the report of the medical officer vided, when. of the Immigration Department, the medical officer of the estate, or of any inspector of immigrants so requiring, the proprietor or lessee of such estate, plantation, or factory shall build or procure addi. tional hospital accommodation of a temporary nature to the satisfaction of the Protector of Immigrants for such of his servants as cannot be duly accommo- dated in the hospital existing on his premises at the time.

ROCOMMO-

197. If any proprietor or lessee of any sugar Penalty for estate, plantation, or factory, who is required by the not provid- Protector of Immigrants to provide a new hospital ing hospital or additional hospital accommodation and fails to action. provide the same within a period to be appointed by the Protector of Immigrants, not exceeding three calendar months, he shall incur a penalty of not less than 207. or more than 50%. sterling, which penalty shall be repeated as often as he shall fail to comply with the order of the Protector of Immigrants, to provide an hospital, or additional hospital accommo. dation within any subsequent period to be fixed as aforesaid. The same penalties shall be incurred by any person who shall fail to keep up an hospital in terms of article 194.

dietary.

198. The Protector of Immigrants shall, with the Hospital assistance of the chief medical officer of the Colony rules and and the medical officer of the Immigration Depart- mont, from time to time make such rules and regula- tions as to him may seem necessary for the proper arrangement and management of certified hospitals, and shall specify therein the furniture, medicines, and appliances, and the quantities of each, which are to be kept supplied in each hospital for the use of the same, and shall, with such assistance, also from time to time frame and revise the dietary which is to be used in such hospitals, and all such rules and regulations, and every such dietary shall be subject to the approval of the Governor and Executive Council, and shall when so approved be pub lished in the Government Gazette, and copies of the same with translations thereof, or of such parts thereof affecting the rights and obligations of immi- grants, as the Protector of Immigrants shall select into the several languages of the immigrants residing in the Colony, shall be transmitted by the Protector of Immigrants to the manger of each sugar estate,

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