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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27тп MAY, 1899.

Custody of medicines.

Duty to examine

119,-(1.) The Medical Officer shall take care that all medicines and stimulants are properly locked up and are not accessible to any prisoner; and, when there is no paid dispenser. he shall issue day by day to the Hospital Warder all medicines and stimulants, to be administered in his absence.

(2.) No medicine shall be administered to any prisoner except in cases of emergency without the Medical Officer's orders.

120. The Medical Officer shall examine all candidates for employment as subordinate officers employment or servants of the prison, and report whether they possess the necessary qualifications as to health and strength.

in prison.

Quarterly report.

Aunual

report.

Power to

strait- jacket.

121. The Medical Officer's Journal shall be laid before the Governor at least once in each quarter of the year, and he shall report at the same time on the condition of the prison and the health of the prisoners and officers, recording any want of cleanliness, proper drainage, warmth, ventilation, or any insufficiency or bad quality of bedding, clothing, provisions or water.

122. He shall deliver to the Superintendent to be forwarded to the Principal Civil Medical Officer, as soon as possible after the close of Decemn- ber in each year, a report in which shall be detailed the number of sick among the prisoners during the year just closed, the mortality, the sanitary condition of the prison, and what diseases have been most prevalent therein. He shall point out any defects in the construction or management of the prison, to which such sickness may be attri. buted, and also what precautions should be taken to prevent the same.

123. The use of the strait-jacket for the order use of restraint of a violent male prisoner, and of ankle straps for the restraint of a violent female pri- soner, may, except in special cases provided for by rule 32, be authorized by the Medical Officer alone, who shall record the use of such restraints in his Journal and report the saine to the Assistant Superintendent.

Duty to conform to rules.

Religious services.

Visits to prisoners.

Equality of privileges.

Duty to

report as to

124. He shall conform to the rules and regu- lations of the prison, and shall support the Assistant Superintendent in the maintenance of discipline and order and the safe custody of the prisoners.

THE CHAPLAINS.

125. The Chaplains shall conduct divine ser- vice with the prisoners of their respective religions at least once on Sundays, and perform such other religious offices as they may think fit, and may visit each of such prisoners in his or her cell as often as they may think fit at reasonable times. To sick, dying, or condemned prisoners they shall have access at any time.

126. The same privileges shall be allowed to every Chaplain in respect of the prisoners of his own religion.

127. The Chaplains shall inform the Assistant mental con- Superintendent whenever they may observe the mind of any prisoner to be liable to be injuriously affected by any punishment awarded.

dition of prisoners.