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Superintendent of Hospital.
Power to make
Regulations for Hospitals.
Evidence of Regulations.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH JULY, 1867.
Care and treatment of
Women detained in Hospital.
Expenses of treatment
XXXVI. A Superintendent shall be appointed for each Hospital who shall have the control and management thereof, subject nevertheless to the directions of the Inspector of Hospitals and to any Regulations made and approved under this Ordinance in respect thereof.
XXXVII. The Inspector of Hospitals shall make Regulations for the management and government of every Hospital as far as regards women authorized by this Ordinance to be detained therein for Medical Treatment or being therein under Medical Treatment for a Contagious Disease such Regulations not being inconsistent with the Provisions of this Ordinance and may from time to time alter any such Regulations; but all such Regulations and all Alterations thereof shall be subject to the approval in writing of the Governor in Council.
XXXVIII. A printed copy of Regulations purporting to be Regulations of a Hospital so approved such copy being signed by the Inspector of Hospitals shall be evidence of the Regulations of the Hospital and of the due making and approval thereof for the purposes of this Ordinance.
XXXIX. Every woman detained in a Hospital shall during the period of such detention be carefully provided for and furnished free of expense to her with lodging, clothing, and food.
XL. The expenses which may be incurred in or about the treatment of any of Women in Hospitals. Prostitute detained in a Hospital as specified in the last preceding Section shall be a Debt due to the Crown and payable by the Keeper of the Brothel or by the Keeper or Person apparently in charge of the House wherein such Person may have been residing. The same in case of non-payment may be sued for and recovered from such Keeper or Person by the Registrar General, or other duly authorized Officer, subject nevertheless to the Provisions in the next Section contained.
Amount to be certified
XLI. No Keeper of a Licensed Brothel shall be liable to such payment unless by Visiting Surgeon, the amount thereof shall have been certified under the hand of the Visiting Surgeon to be in accordance with a scale of charges to be from time to time fixed by the Inspector of Hospitals with the approval of the Governor and such Certificate shall be evidence of the due making and approval of such scale of charges for the purposes of this Ordinance, and of all other facts therein certified.
In case of non payment
and amount recover-
XLII. In case the Keeper of a Licensed Brothel shall refuse or neglect to pay License to become void to the Registrar General the amount due to the Crown and payable by him in respect of able from Householder. such expenses as aforesaid within Three Days after the service upon him of a notice in that behalf or within such further period as the Registrar General may allow the License granted to such Keeper in respect of such Brothel shall from the expiration of the said Three Days or such further period as aforesaid be suspended until such payment shall have been made or recovered, and the Provisions of Section XVII as to the Recovery of Fines shall be applicable to the Recovery of the said amount.
Inmates of Licensed
Medical Examination.
XLIII. Every Inmate of a Licensed Brothel shall be liable at all times to Medical Brothels at all times Examination by a Visiting Surgeon in such Brothel or at such Hospital as he shall direct.
liable to Medical
Examination.
On Information the Registrar General may issue Notice to
Common Prostitute.
Power to Registrar General to order periodical Medical Examination.
XLIV. Where an Information on Oath is laid before the Registrar General by the Superintendent or an Inspector of Police charging to the Effect that the Informant has good cause to believe that a woman therein named is a common Prostitute, and is resident within a District of Victoria or if not being so resident has within Fourteen Days before the laying of the Information been within a District of Victoria or within the Harbor thereof for the purpose of Prostitution the Registrar General may if he thinks fit issue a notice thereof addressed to such woman which notice the Superintendent or Inspector of Police shall cause to be served on her.
XLV. In either of the following cases namely:-
1st. If the woman on whom such a notice is served appears herself or by some Person on her behalf at the time and place appointed in the notice or at some other time and place appointed by adjournment;
2nd. If she does not appear and it is shown to the satisfaction of the Registrar General that the notice was served on her a reasonable time before the time appointed for her appearance or that reasonable notice of such adjournment was given to her (as the case may be);
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