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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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C.O. 885

9 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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PART IX.

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118. Such medical officer shall, in the case of every patient brought to him for treatment, or treated by him on the plantation, record in the case-book any disease of patients or injury under which such patient may appear to be suffering, with the remedies by medical prescribed and diet ordered in each case, and whether he is treated as an in or out patient, and shall inform every in-patient of the diet prescribed for him, and whether stimulants and other extras are to be given with such diet; and, in case of com- plaint, shall ascertain whether such diet and extras have been duly given.

officers.

Responsi- bility of district medical

hospital.

119. One of the medical officers shall see that the hospital, with all bedding, utensils, and other furniture belonging thereto, is at all times kept clean and in proper order, and that there is at all times a sufficient supply of the medicines and officer for food required by the hospital regulations and dietary; and any badness in the quality or defect in the quantity of such furniture, medicines, stores, and appliances of the hospital, and any other neglect or violation of this part of the Act or of such regulations and dietary on the part of the employer or of any officer or servant of the estate; and any omission or delinquency on the part of the hospital dispenser or principal sick nurse not amounting to ground for his dismissal he shall note in the hospital register, and shall require the employer to provide such remedy for the evil or to take such precautions against it as may in his opinion be necessary.

Removal of

públic hospital.

120. Any medical officer may require the manager, by entry in the hospital a patient to register, to remove to any hospital in Port Darwin any immigrant patient in a certified hospital whose case may seem to him to require such removal; and the employer of any indentured immigrant who may be admitted into any hospital, either upon the requisition of any such medical officer or when sent thither by the Immigration Agent-General or otherwise, shall pay to the hospital authorities the sum of One Shilling for each day that such indentured immigrant shall remain in such hospital, and also, in case such immigrant shall die in such hospital, the expense of the burial of such immigrant: Provided further, that no employer shall be liable to the hospital authorities in respect of any immigrant admitted into a hospital who may have deserted from his plantation, and for whose apprehension he shall have taken out a warrant as hereinbefore provided: Provided further, that if the medical officer in attendance at any of such hospitals shall certify as to any such immigrant patient that he is laboring under incurable insanity, the liability of the employer under this section shall in respect of such immigrant absolutely cease and determine.

Requisitions by medical obloers.

Appeal

against

requisi-

tions of

medical officer.

Penalty on employer in respect

of hospital arrange- ments.

Penalty on amployer

121. Every requisition made by any medical officer in the hospital register shall be complied with by the employer, and such medical officer shall report every case of non-compliance or of unnecessary delay in complying with any such requisition to the Immigration Agent-General.

122. If the employer shall represent to the Immigration Agent-General that any requisition so made by any medical officer is unreasonable, or that the course of treatment pursued by such medical officer is in any respects injudicious or extrava- gant, or that he has any other just cause of complaint against such medical officer in respect of the management of the hospital or treatment of the patients, the Immigration Agent-General shall cause full inquiry to be made into the matter, and may require such medical officer to annul such requisition, or to give such other directions or instructions in the matter to the medical officer as he shall think neces- sary, and every employer and medical officer shall be bound by such decision of the Immigration Agent-General, subject to the approval of the Government Resident.

123. Every employer who shall in any respect neglect or refuse to comply with the provisions of this Act, or of the rules, regulations, and dietary thereby authorised, in respect of the arrangements and management of any certified hospital, or of the treatment of patients, or with the requisitions made in pursuance thereof in the hospital register by the medical officers, or with the requisitions of the dispenser or principal sick nurse made in carrying out any prescription or diet order which has been entered by any medical officer in the case-book, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall, on conviction at the complaint of the Immigration Agent-General, pay a fine not exceeding Ten Pounds.

124. Every employer who shall refuse or neglect to send to hospital any immi- in respect grant indentured to him requiring medical care or treatment in hospital, or who

ment of

to ill-treat- shall fail, at any visit of any medical officer, to produce before him any such immi- sick immi- grant who may require medical care or treatment, or who shall refuse or fail to pro-

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vide any such immigrant with the medicines, medical comforts, and diet which may PART IX. be ordered for him while under treatment by any medical officer, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall, on conviction at the complaint of such immigrant, pay a fine not exceeding Five Pounds.

125. Every indentured immigrant who, after being sent to hospital by the Penalty manager, shall be found beyond the limits of such hospital before he shall have been on immi- grants in discharged by the medical officer of the department in attendance at such hospital, respect of or who shall refuse or neglect to appear at any time when required before such hospital. medical officer, or who shall resist any lawful order for his conveyance to hospital or production before such medical officer, or who shall break any of the hospital rules or regulations authorised by this Act, or who shall behave himself in a disorderly or refractory manner while in hospital, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall, on con- viction, pay a fine not exceeding One Pound, or be imprisoned for a term not exceed- ing fourteen days.

PART X.

Dwellings.

PART X.

126. The employer shall upon the allotment or indenture to him of any immi- House grant assign to him a suitable dwelling upon the plantation, and shall at all times accommo keep such dwelling in sufficient repair and the roofs of the same water-tight, and dation. shall keep the yard and grounds for a sufficient space round about such dwelling well drained, and the drains clean and in good order, and the yard and grounds free from bush and weeds and rubbish of every description.

occupa-

127. No dwelling which is, in the opinion of any medical officer, unfit for Assign- habitation shall be assigned to any indentured immigrant, and no greater number ment and of immigrants shall be assigned to any dwelling or separate apartment, except with tion of the special permission of any such medical officer, than at the rate of one adult to dwellings. every fifty feet of superficial space, or of three single men or one man and one woman with not more than two children to every one apartment of not less than one hundred and twenty feet of superficial space.

sitions of

128. Every manager shall keep a register of all such dwellings on his planta- Register of tion as are, or are intended to be, assigned to indentured immigrants for habitation dwellings and shall from time to time enter on such register the names of all the indentured and requi- immigrants residing in each house or apartment, and such register shall be open medical to the inspection of the Immigration Agent-General and of any medical officer; and officers. the medical officer inspecting the same shall mark therein under his signature such dwelling as he may from time to time consider to be unfit for habitation, and also such dwellings as he may have permitted to be occupied in excess of the scale autho- rised by this Act, with his reasons for such permission; and shall also make therein such requisitions as he may deem necessary for ensuring the sanitary fitness of such dwellings for habitation, and every such requisition shall be complied with by the employer: Provided that if the employer shall consider any such requisition un- reasonable, he may make such application and reference as is provided in the case of requisitions in the hospital register.

129. The Immigration Agent-General shall, with the assistance of any medical Regula- officer, from time to time make such regulations as to him may seem necessary for tions as to the proper construction, arrangement, and drainage of the dwellings of indentured dwellings. immigrants, with the yards and grounds thereof; and all such regulations 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 shall be sent to the manager of each plantation on which there may be any indentured immigrants.

130. Where there is scarcity of fuel or firewood on a plantation or where such When fuel or firewood is at a greater distance than four miles from the dwelling of any scarcity of immigrant, the employer shall be bound to provide such immigrant with a sufficient wood or quantity of firewood or fuel gratis; and where there shall not exist a supply of pure ployer to running water on any plantation, or within a reasonable distance, the employer shall supply be bound to supply such immigrant with pure rain or well water.

water em.

immigrant.