CO129-504-15 Various ordinances 4-4-1927 - 29-11-1927 — Page 41

8.

Section 7 of this Ordinance repeals section 11 of the

principal Ordinance and substitutes a new section.

The

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section in question deals with the removal from an

hospital to an asylum of patients who show symptoms of suffering

from delirium tremens. The principal features of the new sec-

tion 11 are as follows :

(a) The order for removal must be made in a definite

statutory form.

(b) The new section is not confined to the Goverıment

Civil Hospital.

(c) The power to order removal is not confined to the

superintendent of the hospital but may be exercised

by the senior medical officer for the time being present

in the hospital and on its staff. It is obvious that

it might be necessary to act during the temporary ab-

sence of the superintendent.

(a) The power to order renoval from a hospital to an asylum

is confined to a person who either is a registered

medical practitioner or is a person who fa by law deemed

to be a registered medical practitioner.

The persons who come under the latter category are (i)

Government medical officers, (11) medical officers of His Majes-

ty's Navy or Army serving in the Colony on full pay, and (iii)

professors of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong

Kong. The reference to professors of the Faculty of Medicine

of the University of Hong Kong is inserted here in anticipation

of a proposed amendment of section 19 of the Medical Registration

Ordinance, 1884, Ordinance No. 1 of 1884.

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