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C.O. 885

9PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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PART IX.

Hospital socommo- dation.

Certifying hospital.

Right of lessee in certified hospital.

With-

drawal of

certificate of hospital.

Hospital rules and lietary.

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PART IX.

Hospitals.

109. On any plantation on which more than five immigrants are employed there shall be a hospital or hospitals certified, or hereafter to be certified, under this Act, and capable of affording accommodation for all immigrants on such plantation at the rate of at least ten beds for not more than fifty immigrants, fifteen beds for from fifty to one hundred immigrants, and five for every hundred immigrants after the first hundred, and affording separate accommodation for male and female immigrants;, and no joint hospital for two or more plantations, and no hospital which is not situated upon the plantation for which it is intended, shall be allowed without a certificate in its favor from one of the medical officers to the department; and no such certificate shall be given without special permission of the Immigration Agent- General.

110. One of the medical officers shall, at the request of any employer, inspect the site and examine the plans for any building proposed to be erected or altered as a certified hospital under this Act, and shall direct to be made thereon such changes and alterations as are in his opinion necessary for ensuring the proper construction, ventilation, and drainage of such hospital, and shall certify any building erected in compliance with such directions and with the provisions of this Act, or which shall have been altered so as to comply with the same, as a certified hospital for the pur- poses of this Act, and shall state in such certificate the number of patients which such hospital is capable of accommodating; and, except as provided for in such certificate, no part of any certified hospital, or of the space under the same, shall be used for any purpose except the accommodation and treatment of patients.

111. Any lessee of a plantation providing a new hospital or additional hospital accommodation, in accordance with the requisition of any medical officer, for immi- grants under indenture on such plantation, shall be entitled to receive such com- pensation thereof from the lessor, on the termination of his lease, as in the case of dispute may be awarded him by two arbitrators to be appointed by himself and the lessor, respectively, or by such umpire as the arbitrators shall appoint.

112. If at any time the accommodation afforded in any such hospital shall fall short of that required by this Act as aforesaid, or such hospital shall appear to any of the medical officers of the department to be for any reason unfitted for the purpose of, and improper to be used as, a certificated hospital, such medical officer shall make such report to the Immigration Agent-General as shall in his opinion be necessary and proper; and if such medical officer shall report that such hospital ought not to continue any longer to be a certificated hospital, it shall be lawful for the Immi- gration Agent-General, subject to the approval of the Government Resident, to withdraw the certificate of such hospital; and if such employer shall not within twelve months of the withdrawal of such certificate, or within such further period as the Government Resident shall allow, have provided some other building proper to be certified as a hospital under this Act, it shall be lawful for the Immigration Agent-General to remove all or any of the indentured immigrants from such plan- tation, and to transfer any such immigrants for the unexpired remainder of their terms of service to any other employer who is willing to accept their services, and to pay the commutation-money.

medical any 113. The Immigration Agent-General shall, with the assistance of officer of the department, from time to time, make such rules and regulations 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 shall when so approved be published in the Government Gazette; and copies of the same, with translations thereof, or of such parts thereof affecting the rights and obliga- tions of immigrants as the Immigration Agent-General shall select, into the several

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languages of the immigrants residing in the said Territory, shall be transmitted by PART IX. the Immigration Agent General to the manager of each plantation on which there may be a certified hospital, and shall be at all times kept suspended within each hospital in such place and manner as to be generally legible.

books.

114. The employer shall at all times keep the hospital properly furnished with Hospital such bedding, utensils, and other furniture, and the dispensary thereof supplied with furniture, such medicines, medical stores, and surgical appliances, as shall be required by the stores, and standing hospital regulations for the time being, 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 Immigration Agent-General, with the advice of any of the medical officers, and shall also provide a case-book and a hospital register, to be kept in the hospital, and shall record in the case-book any failure of any of the medical officers of the department to visit the hospital at the times and in the manner directed by this Act; and such case-book and register shall at all times be open to the inspection of the Immigration Agent- General, and of the medical officers of the department, and shall be produced in any Court, if the presiding Judge or Justices shall so require, in all proceedings taken under this Act by or against any immigrant under indenture.

115. The employer shall employ in the hospital and pay at least one qualified Dispenser dispenser or principal sick nurse, and shall also, if, and whenever, the Immigration and nurses. Agent-General, with the advice of any of the medical officers of the department, shall require, employ such additional nurses as may be necessary for the proper care of the patients in hospital, and shall, if there be female patients, provide a female as well as a male sick nurse; and if at any time it shall be considered by any of the medical officers of the department that any person employed in the hospital as dispenser or nurse is by reason of misconduct or incapacity unfit to be so employed, he shall make entry to that effect in the hospital register, and shall immediately report such entry to the Immigration Agent-General; unless the Immigration Agent- General shall refuse his sanction to the dismissal of such person, the employer shall without delay remove such person and appoint some other fit person in his place.

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Duties of

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nurse.

116. The dispenser or principal sick nurse shall constantly reside on the mises of the hospital, and have charge of all furniture, medicines, stores, and dispenser or princi- appliances belonging thereto, and shall draw upon, and account to, the employer for all stores supplied to the patients by way of diet or otherwise, and shall in all matters affecting the health or comfort of the patients be subject to the orders of the medical officers of the department, and shall, subject to such orders, attend the patients, make up and administer the medicines, and serve out the diets as such medical officers may direct, and shall report to them any badness in the quality or defect in the quantity of such furniture, medicine, stores, and appliances, and shall enter in the case-book the names of all immigrants brought to the hospital, and shall enter in the hospital register the name of every patient admitted by the medical officers to treatment, with the dates of his admission and discharge, the nature of his disease or injury, and result of the case, and shall keep an account of all stores expended in the service of the hospital, and of the prices paid for all such stores as he is himself authorised by the employer to purchase; and such account shall be at all times open to the inspection of the Immigration Agent-General and the medical officers, and shall be produced in any Court, if the presiding Judge or Justices shall so require, in all proceedings taken under this Act by or against any immigrant under indenture.

117.

medical

One of the medical officers shall visit each plantation upon which there Visits of may be any immigrants under indenture as soon as possible in cases of emergency officers. or if specially summoned by the manager in any such case, and shall at every such visit sign his name with the date of such signature in the case-book; and shall, from time to time, visit the dwellings of the immigrants, and shall order every immigrant under indenture on the plantation whom he may consider to require medical treat- ment to be treated either as an in or out patient, as the case may require, and shall report to the Immigration Agent-General every case of neglect on the part of the manager to send to hospital or to produce before him any indentured immigrant re- quiring treatment.

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