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he holds the degree of

of the University of Hongkong, or that he holds a degree, dipoma or licence in medicine and surgery of

which is a medical school the degrees, diplomas and licences of General which are recognised as entitling to registration by the Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom); that he is of good character; and that he is entitled to be registered in Part I of the register under the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1935.

Dated the

day of

By order,

19.......

C. D.

Secretary of the Medical Board.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

[s. 9 (3)].

Regulations to be observed by persons authorised

by the Governor under the proviso to section 9 (1) of the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1935, to sign certificates of the cause of death for the purposes of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, 1934.

1. No certificate of the cause of death shall be granted in any case unless the person giving it was in professional attendance on the patient for a period of not less than forty-eight hours before death.

2. No charge shall be made for a certificate of the cause of death.

3. No certificate of death from cholera shall be granted except with the approval of a Health Officer.

4. In every case presenting choleraic symptoms, the practitioner shall if possible collect in a clean stoppered wide mouthed bottle a specimen of the patient's intestinal discharges, and forward the same without delay to a Health Officer who will decide as to the necessity for a bacteriological examination of such discharges.

5. The name and address of every case of plague, small-pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhus fever, enteric ferver, relapsing fever, paratyphoid fever or puerperal fever shall be reported by the practitioner without delay to a Health Officer and in the case of Chinese patients a notification shall be sent at the same time by the practitioner to the nearest Chinese Public Dispensary.

6. In all cases of doubt as to whether a patient is suffering from an infectious disease, the practitioner shall consult a Health Officer before notifying the case to the nearest Chinese Public Dispensary.

7. Cases of a medico-legal nature which may possibly involve a charge of assault, murder or attempted suicide, and accidents. likely to result in death, shall be sent if possible to a public hospital, and failing that the practitioner shall consult with a registered medical practitioner or with a Government medical officer.

8. A weekly return of all certificates of the cause of death issued by each person authorised by the Governor to sign such certificates shall be forwarded by him to a Health Officer and the entries in these returns must correspond exactly with the wording of the certificates with which they will be compared.

9. Every person authorised by the Governor to sign medical certificates of the cause of death for the purposes of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, 1934, shall on or before the 1st day of April in each year apply in writing to the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services for the publication of his name in the list of the persons authorised.