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C.O. 885

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More serious Ofen.co inmates of Kayjum.

Bolitary confinement.

Visiting Justice.

Penalty on persons tres- passing on asylum

Aiding leper to escape.

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30. If an inmate of a leper asylum escapes from it, or is guilty of repeated violations of any rules made as aforesaid, which in the opinion of the Medical Superintendent cannot adequately be punished under the provisions of the last preceding Section, the Visiting Justice, after due inquiry upon oath, may order such inmate to undergo any one or more of the following punishments:-

(1.) Exclusion from seeing friends for not longer than six months; (2.) Deprivation of tobacco for not longer than two months;

Reduction of rations for not longer than fourteen days;

Solitary confinement for not longer than three days, and to receive only bread and water or such diet as the Medical Superintendent shall

order;

(5.) Imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding

one month.

31. Any inmate of a leper asylum ordered to undergo solitary confinement under the provisions of the last two preceding Sections, shall have one hour in the open air in the morning and in the evening in charge of an attendant and apart from the other inmates.

General.

32. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint a Magistrate or a Justice to be Visiting Justice of any leper asylum, and he shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine all cases arising under Section 30 of this Ordinance.

33. Any person not having official business at a leper asylum who without permission of the Medical or Resident Superintendent thereof goes within the limits thereof shall be guilty of trespass, and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding Five pounds.

34. Any person who shall aid or abet any inmate of a leper asylum in escaping or attempting to escape from such asylum before such inmate has been lawfully discharged therefrom shall be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding three months, or to a fine not exceeding Ten pounds. Detention and 35. Every person received into a leper asylum under any warrant or order issued under the provisions of this Ordinance or of any other Ordinance in that behalf may

be detained therein until he be removed or discharged, and in case of escape may by virtue of such warrant or order be captured by the officer in charge of such asylum or any officer or servant belonging thereto or any police constable and be again conveyed to and received and detained in such asylum.

re-capture of

1 lepers.

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Evidence required to

88. (1.) No leper or alleged leper shall be convicted of an offence under this prove leprosy, Ordinance or dealt with under the provisions of Section 12 of this Ordinance, or removed from the Colony under the provisions of this Ordinance, and no person shall be convicted of any offence with respect to the landing, and no costs shall be recovered with respect to the removal or maintenance of any leper or alleged leper except on the evidence or certificate of two Medical Practitioners that such person is a leper. (2.) The certificate in writing of a Medical Practitioner shall be admissible as evidence under this Section, unless the Court shall otherwise direct.

Cleansing and disinfection of premises.

■ Actions

against

persona par-

97. It shall be lawful for any Medical Officer of Health or any person appointed by him at all reasonable times to enter any premises which within six months before such entry have been inhabited by any person suffering from leprosy, and to do such acts therein for the purpose of cleaning and disinfecting the same as may from time to time be prescribed by rules under Section 28 hereof.

38. In any action against any person for anything purporting to have been done in pursuance of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any rule made here- porting to act under, there shall be judgment for the defendant unless the plaintiff has alleged and proved that the action complained of was done by such person maliciously and without reasonable or probable cause.

under this Ordinance.

Penalties

39.-1.) Any person committing any breach of any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any rules made thereunder for which no penalty is expressly provided by this Ordinance shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding Ten pounds, and in default of payment to imprisonment for any period not exceeding one month.

(2.) All persons punishable by fine or imprisonment under this Ordinance may be proceeded against summarily before any Magistrate, and the manner of procedure in all such cases shall be according to the Summary Conviction Offences (Procedure) Ordinance (No. 1.)

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40. The Lepers Ordinance No. 190, the Lepers Ordinance, 1911 (No. 7-1911) Repeal. and the Lepers (Amending) Ordinance, 1911 (No. 22-1911), and any provisions contained in Sections 18, 18, and 20 of the Hospitals Ordinance No. 104 referring to lepers or leper asylums are hereby repealed; provided that all persons detained in any leper asylum at the time of the commencement of this Ordinance shall be deemed to be detained under the provisions of this Ordinance.

ment.

41. This Ordinance shall commence and come into operation on a day to be commence. proclaimed by the Governor.

Passed in Council this Third day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

SCHEDULE.

HARRY L. KNAGGB,

Clerk of the Council.

LIST of Trades or Callings prohibited to lepers :-

Baker.

Butcher.

Ice Cream Vendor.

Green Grocer.

Market Gardener. 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 ar 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.

Waiter.

Steward.

Barman.

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.

Boatman. Sailor.

Hawker.

Huckster.

Vanman.

Schoolmaster. Teacher,

or any Trade, Occupation, Employment or Calling in which the person employed comes in contact with other persons.

Annexure 2 to No. 10. MINUTE by SURGEON-General.

HONOURABLE COLONIAL SECRETARY,

ONE or two comparatively insignificant alterations of the second draft Lepers Ordinance that I submitted to the Government on the 22nd ultimo appear in Ordinance No. 32-1913, passed on the 3rd instant, but some of my most important proposals did not receive the approval of the Governor in Executive Council, and were lightly dismissed or not mentioned at all in the Legislative Council when the Ordinance passed through its further stages. As you are aware, the second reading in Committee of the Council was taken by reading only the marginal summaries of the several clauses and the Schedule.

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