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4. The lapsing pay and allowances can be used in such way as. the Surgeon-General may direct for the payment of substitutes.

5.

In each institution a leave book is to be kept in which shall be entered the dates from and to which all leave is granted.

6. The present Regulations are hereby repealed.

(Signed) J. E. GODFREY,

Surgeon-General.

Made by the Surgeon-General and approved by the Governor under Section 4 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1885, on the 6th day of April, 1906.

By Command, (Signed) J. HAMPDEN KING,

Assistant Government Secretary.

APPENDIX C.

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REGULATIONS FOR DEALING WITH THE FINE FUNDS IN THE MEDICAL PRISON AND POOR LAW DEPARTMENTS.

Grants-in-Aid under the following circumstances may be made from the Fine Fund at the discretion of the Administering Officer, provided that the fund has sufficient at its credit to meet such grants :-

(a) Long-continued illness of an officer involving loss or suspension of pay.

(b) Loss of wife or husband, of a person in Government employment, where such loss involves extra expenditure on the part of the employed in case of the legitimate children of the marriage.

(c) Discharge with or without pension, from ill-health after not less than five years' continuous service, if there are any circumstances by which unusual expenses are thrown on the official.

(d) To the widow and children of an official who has died in the service; or if an official leaves the service from ill-health and dies within six months after leaving the service, leaving a widow and children.

(e) To establish or maintain, wholly or in part, reading-rooms for officials, or to some

similar purpose by which the general body of officials may be benefited.

(f) To assist officials with their expenses when sent on permanent duty from one part

of the Colony to another.

Approved by the Governor on the 8th June, 1905.

By Command, (Signed) CHARLES T. Cox,

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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.

(Signed)

N. DARNELI. DAVIS,

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.

Acting Government Secretary.

[V. OF 1899.]

Ordinance No. V. OF 1899.

An Ordinance to repeal and re-enact with amendments "The Lepers Ordinance 1898."

Government Secretary.

C. B. II. MITCHELL,

Governor and Commander-in-Chief.

[25th April, 1899.]

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

C.O. 885

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APPENDIX D.

EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES of a Meeting OF THE COMBINED COURT HELD ON FRIDAY, THE 17TH MARCH, 1893.

Gratuities to Non-Pensionable Public Servants.

Be it resolved: That all persons other than Public Servants on the Fixed Establishment, employed under Government without special agreement, shall after three years of continuous service be entitled to three months' notice of discharge, or in case of discharge in consequence of infirmity, to three months' pay in lieu of notice provided that no person discharged for misconduct shall be entitled to benefit by the terms of this Resolution.

APPENDIX E.

BOARD OF SURVEY.

Leper Asylum, the Medical Superintendent, the Commissiary of Taxation, Mahaica District.

N.B.-This Board of Survey appointed by the Governor under Section 10 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1884 (G.S. to S.G. No. 4748, dated 13th of August, 1895), assembles during the first week of January and July of each year on the requisition of the Medical Officer in charge of the Institution, and the report of the proceedings is forwarded in duplicate to the Surgeon- General for the approval and decision of the Governor.

APPENDIX П.

RULES FOR THE BETTER INSURING OF

EFFECTIVE ISOLATION LEPERS ORDINANCE, 1905.

OF LEPERS UNDER SECTION 35

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

Baker,

Butcher.

It is hereby enacted by the Governor of the Straits Settlements with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows:

1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Lepers Ordinance 1899."

2. In this Ordinance-

Leper

"

£1

means any person suffering from any variety of leprosy. Qualified medical practitioner " means the holder of an European or British Indian or British Colonial degree diploma or licence entitling him to practise medicine or surgery or the holder of a degree diploma or licence in medicine or surgery of any medical school of the United States of America the degree diplomas or licences whereof are for the time being recognised as registrable by the General Council of Medical Education Registration in the Unitel Kingdom.

Short title. Definitions,

Prohibition of

3. The Governor in Council may from time to time by Notification published in the certain "Gazette" prohibit the carrying on by a leper of any of the trades or callings specified in the calling to schedule hereto.

leper,

4. (1) Any leper who shall carry on any trade or calling so prohibited as aforesaid and Penalty. any person who shall knowingly employ a leper in any such trade or calling shall be liable on conviction by a Court of Two Magistrates to fine which may amount to fifty dollars or to imprisonment which may be of either description for any period not exceeding one month or to both and any leper so convicted may be committed to a Leper Asylum to be detained there until discharged by Order of the Governor.

(2) Any leper who shall enter any hackney carriage jinrikisha or other public vehicle or lodge in any hotel boarding-house or lodging-house or bathe in any public bath shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars and may be committed to a Leper Asylum to be detained there until discharged by Order of the Governor.

5. The Governor may establish Asylums at such places as he may think proper for the Asylums. reception and detention of lepers and may declare any place heretofore used for the treatment and segregation of lepers to be an Asylum within the meaning of this Ordinance and shall appoint a fit and proper person to be the Officer in charge of each such Asylum.

of vagrant

6. Whenever any person is convicted by a Magistrate of an offence punishable under Detention section thirty-two of "The Summary Criminal Jurisdiction Ordinance 1872" and such Magis- lepers. trate is satisfied that the person so convicted is a leper it shall be lawful for such Magistrate by warrant under his hand and seal to order to detention of such leper in a Leper Asylum until he is discharged by Order of the Governor.