THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH MAY, 1867.
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 therefrom as in the next succeeding Section mentioned or under the Provisions of Section LI of this Ordinance.
XLVI. Where a woman certified by a Visiting Surgeon to be affected with a Detention in Contagious Disease places herself or is placed as aforesaid in a Hospital for Medical Hospital. Treatment she shall be detained there for the purpose by a Visiting Surgeon until discharged by him by writing under his hand.
The Certificate of a Visiting Surgeon shall be sufficient authority for such Detention.
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XLVII. The Inspector of Hospitals may if in any case it seems to him expedient by Power to transfer to Order in writing signed by him direct the Transfer of any woman detained in a Hospital another Certified for Medical Treatment from that Hospital to another nained in the Order.
Every such Order shall be sent to the Registrar General and shall also be sufficient authority for the Superintendent 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 there for that purpose by the Visiting Surgeon until discharged by him by writing under his hand.
The Order of the Inspector of Hospitals shall be sufficient authority for such Detention.
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XLVIII. Provided always that no woman shall be detained under any one Certificate Limitation of for a longer time than Three Months unless the Visiting Surgeon certify that her Detention. 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 by the Visiting Surgeon until discharged by him by writing under his hand.
XLIX. If any woman detained in any Hospital considers herself entitled to be Power to apply to for discharged there from and the Visiting Surgeon refuses to discharge her such woman discharge. shall on her request be conveyed before the Registrar General and he shall if satisfied upon Medical Examination that she is free from a Contagions Disease discharge her from such Hospital and such Order of Discharge shall have the same effect as the Discharge of the Visiting Surgeon.
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L. Every woman conveyed or transferred under this Ordinance to a Hospital Woman conveyed, &c. shall while being so conveyed or transferred thither and also while detained there be be in legal Custody. deemed to be legally in the Custody of the Person conveying, transferring, or detaining her.
Refusal to be Examined, &c.
LI. In the following cases, namely:-
1st: If any woman who is the Inmate of a Licensed Brothel or who is subjected by Order of the Registrar 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 wilfully neglects to subinit herself to such Exami- nation on any such occasion;
2nd. If any woman authorized by this Ordinance to be detained in a Hospital for Medical Treatment quits the Hospital without being discharged therefrom by the Visiting Surgeon by writing under his hand (the Proof whereof shall lie on the accused);
3rd. If any woman authorized by this Ordinance to be detained in a Hospital for Medical Treatment or any woman being in a Hospital under Medical Treatment for a Contagious Disease refuses or wilfully neglects while in the Hospital to conform to the Regulations thereof made and approved under this Ordinance; then and in every such case such woman shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance and on summary conviction shall be liable to Imprisonment with or without Hard Labor in the case of a first offence for any term not exeeding One Month, and in a case of a second or any subsequent offence for any term not exceeding Three Months and in case of the offence of quitting the Hospital without being discharged as aforesaid the woman may be taken into Custody without Warrant by any Constable.
Penalty for refusal to be examined, &c.
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