CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10] — Page 470

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30. If on any medical examination under this Ordinance the woman examined is found to be affected with a con-

tagious disease, she shall thereupon be liable to be detained in a hospital subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, and a Visiting Surgeon shall sign a certificate to the effect that she is affected with a contagious disease naming the hospital in which she is to be placed. Such certificate shall be sent to the Registrar General and the woman shall be detained in such hospital until discharged by order in writing under the hand of a Visiting Surgeon.

The certificate of a Visiting Surgeon shall be sufficient authority for such detention.

31. The Inspector of Hospitals may, if in any case it seems to him expedient, by order in writing direct the transfer of any woman detained in a hospital for medical treatment from the hospital to another named in the order.

Such order shall be sent to the Registrar General and shall also be sufficient authority for the Captain Superinten- dent of Police or any person acting under his order to transfer the woman to whom it relates from the one hospital to the other and to place her there for medical treatment, and she shall be detained thero for that purpose by the Visiting Surgeon until discharged by him by the order in writing of a Visiting Surgeon.

The order of the Inspector of Hospitals shall be sufficient authority for such detention.

32. No

woman shall be detained under any one certificate for a longer time than three months, unless the Visiting Surgeon certify that her further detention for medical treatment is requisite, in which case she may be further detained in the hospital in which she is at the expiration of the said period of Three months until discharged by order in writing of a Visiting Surgeon.

33. If any woman detained in a hospital considers bersoll entitled to be discharged therefrom and a Visiting Surgoon refuses to discharge her, such woman shall on her request be conveyed before a Magistrate and he shall, if satisfied upon medical examination that she is free from a contagious disease, discharge her from such hospital and the order of discharge shall have the same effect as the discharge of a Visiting Surgeon.

34. Any woman who, on attending for examination or being examined by a Visiting Surgeon, is found by him to be in such a condition that he cannot properly examine her, shall, if such Surgeon has reasonable grounds for be- lieving that she is affected with a contagious disease, be liable to be detained in a certified hospital, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, until a Visiting Surgeon can properly examine her, so that she be not so detained for a period exceeding five days. The Visiting Surgeon shall sign a certificate to the effect that she was in such a condition that he could not properly examine her, and that she is affected with a contagious disease, and shall name therein the certified hospital in which she is to be placed; and such certificate shall be signed and otherwise dealt with in the same manner, and have the same effect, except as rogards duration, as a certificate under section 30 of this Ordinance.

If the reason that the Visiting Surgeon cannot examine the woman is that she is drunk, she may be detained upon ao order of the Visiting Su geon for a period not exceeding twenty-four hours in any place named in the order where persons accused of being drunk and disorderly or of offences punishable summarily are usually detained, and the gaoler or the keeper of such place shall upon the receipt of auch order receive and detain the woman accordingly.

35. In the following cases, namely:-

(1) If any woman who is the inmate of a registered

brothel other than a brothel for the sole nse of Chinese or who is subjected by order of the Re- gistrar General under this Ordinance to periodical medical examination at any time, temporarily absents herself in order to avoid submitting herself to such examination on any occasion on which she ought so to submit herself or refuses or wil- fully neglects to submit herself to such examina- tion on any such occasion;

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Certificate of Visiting Batean. Ordnance (

of 1867, seca. 49 ani 39

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Absfer to Another bo pital.

Ibid, sec. 11.)

Limitation of detention. [Zbid, sec. 34.]

Power to apply for discharg [Ibid, sea 53. Į

Power to Attire in verified hos- pital.

32 and 33 Vic, Cap. 90, sec. 3

Penalty for refusal to be examined, a. Ordfaces 10

of 1867, sec. 34.