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mimim C.O. 882

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

Hospital furniture, stores, and books.

Engagement of duly qualified

practitioner as medical attendant.

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plantation, or factory on which there may be a certified hospital, and shall at all times be kept suspended within each hospital, in such place and manner as to be generally legible. Provided that the existing hospital rules and dietary shall remain in force until altered.

199. The employer shall at all times keep the hospital properly furnished with such bedding, uten- sils, and other furniture, and the dispensary thereof supplied with such medicines, medical stores, and surgical appliances, as shall be required by the standing hospital regulations, and shall provide for the continual supply to the hospital in sufficient quantities of all articles of food comprised in the dietary and also of such extras as may be specially prescribed by the medical attendant of the estate, plantation, or factory, and shall also provide a case book and a hospital register to be kept in the hos- pital, and shall record in the case book any failure of the medical attendant of the estate, plantation, or factory, to visit the hospital at the times and in the manner directed by this Ordinance, and such case book and register shall at all times be open to the inspection of the Protector of Immigrants, the medical officer of the Department, and the medical attendant of the estate, plantation, or factory, and shall be pro- duced in any court, if the presiding judge or magis- trate shall so require, in all proceedings under this Ordinance by or against any immigrant under indenture.

200. Every person having in his service, after this Ordinance shall have come into operation, 30 or more servants, for whom by the terms of this Ordinance he is bound to have an hospital, shall, within one month from the date of this Ordi- nance coming into operation, engage, subject to the approval of the Governor, a duly qualified medical practitioner as medical attendant upon his said ser- vants, and shall notify on or before the 15th day of January in every year to the Protector the name of such medical practitioner, the number of servants employed by him, and also the acceptance by such medical practitioner of the said employment, or in case the employer and servants reside in Port Louis, the notification shall state the number of servants employed, and the intention of the employer to send his sick servants to the civil hospital.

The said notification to the Protector shall be made in duplicate in the terms of Schedule No. 32 hereto annexed, of which duplicate one shall be retained by the Protector, and the other shall be marked with his visa and be returned to the person making the

same.

201. The Governor may at any time, on the the Governor report of either the Procureur General, the Protector, in respect of or the medical officer of the Department, require the removal of any medical attendant from the charge of an estate hospital, and the appointment by the employer of another duly qualified practitioner in

medical

attendants

on estates hospitals.

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his place, and any employer neglecting to make such appointment and to notify the same to the Protector within 14 days from the date of the Governor's order

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in that behalf shall be liable to a penalty not exceed. ing 20%, and if the employer persist in his neglect for another 14 days the Protector shall withdraw from the hospital of such employer the certificate, as herein-before provided by article 193.

on estates.

202. The Governor shall have power to limit the Power of the number of estates under the charge of any one Governor to medical attendant, if he should deem such limitation limit the desirable; and further the right of such medical private

practice of attendants to take private practice shall be subject medical to the approval of the Governor, and to such regula attendants tions as to the limits within which such private practice shall be allowed as to the Governor may from time to time appear expedient; and it shall be lawful for the Governor to order that such medical practitioner do give up within the time determined in the order his private practice absolutely, or do restrict it within such limits as may be determined by the Governor.

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Any medical practitioner taking private practice, or extending his private practice contrary to such order of the Governor, shall be liable to forfeit bis professional remuneration as a medical attendant on estates as aforesaid, for the half year during which any such act of disobedience, may be proved against him.

Provided always, that private practice shall not be deemed to include medical attendance bestowed by such medical practitioner upon members of his own household, nor upon the household of the employer or manager of the estate to which he is medical attendant.

203. A penalty not exceeding 50%, and not less Penalty for

than 10%. shall be incurred by-

false state-

number of

men on

1. Any person who in any notification aforesaid ments as to

shall knowingly state the number of servants for whom he has engaged a medical practitioner, at states. a smaller number than that of all the servants employed and residing at the place referred to in the said notification.

2. Any medical practitioner who shall grant any certificate as in Schedule No. 33 annexed to this Ordinance, knowing that the number of ser- vanta stated in the notification preceding, and referred to in such certificate, is smaller than the whole number of servants employed and residing at the place specified in the said notifi- cation.

3. Any person who shall fail to make the notifi- cation required by article 200 on or before the 15th day of January in every year shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 50%, and should such notification not be made after a first con- viction, such person shall further, be liable to a fine not exceeding 1007.

ants.

204. Every medical practitioner engaged as afore- Remunera- said as the medical attendant of any sagar estate, or tion to medi- other plantation or factory as aforaaid, shall receive cal attend- from the Receiver General professional remuneration calculated at the rate of the sum of 4. per annum for each servant upon whom he shall be so engaged to attend, and every proprietor or lessee of any sugar

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