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454 THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 8, 1926.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEpartment.

No. 556.-The scale of charges for medical treatment in the Government hos- pitals and a-ylums published in the Gazette on the 24th day of December, 1903, as Notification No. 820 is hereby cancelled and the following scales are substituted therefor, with effect from the 1st of January, 1927.

SCALE OF CHARGES FOR MAINTENANCE AND MEDICAL TREATMENT IN GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS (OTHER THAN THE PEAK HOSPITAL) AND AS LUMS,

Naval small-pox Patients.

Naval officers and men treated in Kennedy Town Hospital are charged $2 a day.

Other naval and military patients are charged in accordance with the following scale for other patients.

Private patients.

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PATIENTS,

Scale of Charges.

(Asiatic on European diet)

(Asiatic not on European diet).

DAILY RATES.

1ST

2ND

3RD

CLANS.

CLASS.

CLASS.

$

$

$

8.00

5.00

2.00

2.00

0.50

5.00

European lunatics, landed from ships on consular or

ship's agent's guarante

Asiatic lunatics, landed from ships on consular or ship's

agent's guarantee :-

(a) on European diet

(b) not on European diet....

Lunatics sent in by Board of Trade : -

class.

(a) European and American

(b) Asiatic

2.00

0.50

2.00

0.50

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

Private patients other than Government or naval or military patients charged Ist or 2nd class daily rates for maintenance will be subject to the following additional charges:-

(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 Principal Civil Medical Officer shall think fit having regard to the nature of the operation: