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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &c.

Act of Colonial Legislature or other Authority under which levied,

MEDICAL TREATMENT,—Continued,

Children under 12 half price in each Class.

Medical Officers (including the Medical Officers of Health), Sisters and

Nurses of the various Hospitals and Asylums.

Members of the Subordinate Staff attached to the various Hospitals and Free.

Asylums, if admitted to a Hospital while suffering from illness which

is clearly the result of their work.

SCALE OF CHARGES FOR MAINTENANCE AND MEDICAL TREATMENT IN GOVERNMENT

HOSPITALS (OTHER THAN THE PEAK HOSPITAL AND VICTORIA HOSPITAL, MATERNITY WARDS) AND ASYLUMS,

.C.8.0, No. 7993 of 1906.

Daily Rates.

1st Class, ! 2nd Class, | 3rd Class.

Private patients

$8.00

35.00

(Asiatic on Europenu diet) (Asintie not on European diet)....

$2.00 2.00

.50

5.00

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European lunaties, landed from ships on consular

or ship's agent's guarantee

Asiatic lunatics, lauded from ships on consular or

ship's agent's guarantee : –

(a) On European diet

(3) Not on European diet..............................

Lunatics sent in by Bourd of Trade : —

(a) European and American.... (b) Asiatie

Naval small-pox patients-Officers and men

treated in Kennedy Town Hospital.

$2.00 a day.

2.00

.50

2.00

.50

Children under twelve years of age are charged at half the foregoing rates in each class.

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Naval and Military patients will be charged in accordance with the seale for private patients".

Proprietary medicines or drugs not contained in the British Pharmacopoeia will be charged for if supplied by the Government,

Private patients, other thinu Government or Naval or Military patients, charged 1st or 2nd class daily rates for maintenance will be subject to the following additional cliarges :-

(1) For medical attendance, a charge at the rate of one third of the rate for

maintenance,

(2) For surgical operations, such charge not exceeding $300, as the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services shall think fit having regard to the nature of the operation. This charge will be in addition to the above charge for medical attendance.

(3) For maternity cases, charges of $100 and $75 respectively, in lieu of the

above charge for medical attendance,

(4) For

"Special" nurse, a charge of $7 daily.

The Director of Medical and Sanitary Services has discretionary power to waive the additional charges.

Private patients in Goverument Hospitals (other than the Peak Hospital and Maternity Wards at the Victoria Hospital) will be attended by Government Medical Officers.

If in the case of a private patient charged 1st or 2nd class daily rates the Consult- ing Physician, Surgeon or Obstetrician is called in, either at the request of the patient or by arrangement between the patient and the Medical Officer, the amount of the consultant's fee shall be a matter for arrangement between the patient and the consultant.

Where an operation is performed by the Consulting Surgeon or Obstetrician no charge will be made by the Government in respect of the operation.

Certificate. A charge of $5 is made for all certificates in connection with the Etness or unfitness of patients or others to perform their duty aud for invaliding certificates, and $10 for certificates required by insurance companies, ete.

Government Notification No. 527 of 21st Septem- ber, 1928.

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