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No.

GOVERNMENT NOTICE.

Government Secretary's Office,

Georgetown, Demerara,

23rd March, 1907.

The following Rules, made by the Governor under Section 23 of Ordinance No. 15 of 1905, are hereby published for general information.

Baker.

Butcher.

THE SCHEDULE.

Trades or Callings Prohibited to Lepers.

Cook, or any trade or calling in which the person employed handles or comes in contact with articles of food or drink, drugs, medicines, or tobacco in any form.

Fishmonger.

Washer.

Bootmaker.

Tailor, or any trade or calling in which the person employed manufactures, handles, or comes in contact with wearing apparel.

Barber, or any other similar trade or calling in which the person employed necessarily comes in contact with other persons.

Domestic servant.

Nurse.

Licensed hackney carriage driver.

Dairyman, or any situation or calling in which the person employed comes in contact with cows or other animals kept for the purpose of furnishing milk.

By Command,

J. HAMPDEN KING,

Acting Government Secretary.

RULES MADE UNDER SECTION 23 OF ORDINANCE No. 15 OF 1905 FOR THE PUBLIC LEPER ASYLUM.

1. The officers of the Asylum shall be of the following classes, or of such of them and in Officers. auch number as the Governor may from time to time consider necessary:-

(1) Medical Superintendent.

(2) Steward.

(3) Matron.

(4) Dispenser.

(5) Issuer.

(6) Attendants, Nurses, and Servants.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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THE MEDICAL SuperintendENT.

BRITISH GUIANA.

2. The Medical Superintendent shall, subject to the direction of the Surgeon-General, General have the immediate superintendence and management of the Asylum, and the control of all powers of officers, attendants, and servants employed therein.

Superinten

dente, &c.

OF LEPERS UNDER SECTION 35

OF THE LEPERS ORDINANCE, 1905.

3. He shall in respect of any of his duties as Medical Superintendent obey such instruc- Obedience to tions as he may from time to time receive from the Surgeon-General.

4. He shall see that the Rules are strictly carried out.

instructions.

Carrying out

of rules.

RULES FOR THE BETTER ENSURING OF "EFFECTIVE ISOLATION

1. A leper permitted to isolate himself at his own expense must not engage in any of the following trades or callings:-

Baker, Butcher,

Cook, or any trade or calling in which the person employed handles or comes in contact

with articles of food or drink, drugs, medicines or tobacco in any form. Fishmonger, Washer, Bootmaker,

Tailor, or any trade or calling in which the person employed manufactures, handles,

or comes in contact with wearing apparel.

Barber, or any other similar trade or calling in which the person employed necessarily

comes in contact with other persons.

Domestic Servant,

Nurse,

Licensed Hackney Carriage Driver.

Dairyman, or any situation or calling in which the person employed comes in contact

with cows or other animals kept for the purpose of furnishing milk.

2. A leper may employ an attendant.

3. He must not expose his leprosy to the public view.

4. He must

(a) Avoid coming into direct contact with any other person;

(b) See that his clothes are washed separately from those of other persons, and within

the precincts of his residence;

(c) Use no other utensils but his own for cooking and eating;

(d) Destroy by fire all "dressings" for ulcers that have been used by him.

5. A breach of any of these Regulations will involve the removal of the leper to the Leper Asylum.

Made by the Governor under Section 35 of the Lepers Ordinance 1905, this 21st day of May, 1906.

5. Ile shall not be allowed private practice or other fees, unless specially sanctioned by Private prac the Governor.

tice, fees, kc. 6. He shall visit the Asylum daily, and shall be responsible for the medical care and Visite, care of proper treatment of the inmates, and also for the care of the buildings, grounds, furniture, buildings, &c drugs, and stores of all kinds.

inmates,

and examina-

7. IIe shall see and examine all new cases as soon as possible after their admission, and Admission must be careful to admit only such cases as have been committed in accordance with the provi- tion of cases. sions of the Leper Asylum Ordinance.

8. He shall keep a Journal in which he shall enter the date, the hour of his arrival and Keeping of departure, any orders he may issue to the Steward, Dispenser or Matron, and record any matters journal. of importance.

9. He shall see all patients before their discharge and satisfy himself that they are well Discharge of enough to be discharged.

patients.

Observance of

10. He shall see that "The Financial Regulations" so far as they relate to the Asylum nancial are strictly carried out.

regulations.

11. He shall forward the Monthly Requisition of Expenditure to the Surgeon-General's Monthly Office not later than the 20th day of the month previous to that for which the authority for conditore expenditure is asked; and in doing so shall draw the Surgeon-General's attention to any vote of which the one-twelfth part is likely to be exceeded, and state fully the reasons.

expenditure.

12. He shall cause to be kept such Registers of inmates, Case Books, and other books as Keeping of be necessary.

registers, caRE

books, de.

13.-(1) He shall, when necessary, at the beginning of every month hold a Board of Survey Board of consisting of himself, the Steward and Matron for the purpose of examining and reporting on survey. all articles of equipment becoming unserviceable which it is necessary to replace without delay. The report is to be forwarded in duplicate to the Surgeon-General. The condemned articles must be replaced from the stock in store or included in the next monthly requisition.

(2) Ie shall see that all articles so condemned are entered in a book, put aside in the condemned store-room, and brought up at the half-yearly Government Board of Survey held in the first week of January and July for final condemnation and disposal, in accordance with Section 10 of Ordinance 4 of 1884. This Board has been fixed by the Governor to consist of the Medical Superintendent and Commissary of the Mahaica Fiscal District.

N. DARNELL DAVIS,

Acting Government Secretary.

15. He shall see that a record of the fines inflicted on the attendants, nurses, and servants, is kept, and at the end of each month shall forward to the Surgeon-General a return showing all such fines.

14. He shall see that the Defaulters' Sheets of every attendant and servant is properly Keeping of written up.

defaulters'

sheets.