THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH JULY, 1867.
the Registrar General on Oath being made before him substantiating the matter of the Information to his satisfaction may if he think fit order that the woman be subject to a periodical Medical Examination by a Visiting Surgeon for any period not exceeding One Year for the purpose of ascertaining at the time of each such examination whether she is affected with a Contagious Disease and thereupon she shall be subject to such a periodical Medical Examination and the order shall be a sufficient warrant for a Visiting Surgeon to conduct such Examination accordingly.
The Order shall specify the time and place at which the woman shall attend for the first examination.
The Superintendent of Police shall cause a copy of the order to be served on the
woman.
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Medical Examinations.
XLVI. The Governor in Council may from time to time make Regulations Power to make respecting the times and places of Medical Examinations under this Ordinance, and Regulations as to generally respecting the arrangements for the conduct of those Examinations; and a copy of all such Regulations from time to time in force shall be sent to the Registrar General, the Inspector of Hospitals, the Visiting Surgeons, and the Superintendent of
Police.
XLVII. The Visiting Surgeon having regard to the Regulations aforesaid and to Visiting Surgeon to the circumstances of each case shall at the first examination of each woman examined prescribe times, &c. by him and afterwards from time to time as occasion requires prescribe the times and places at which she is required to attend again for Examination and he shall from time to time give or cause to be given to each such woman notice of the times and places so prescribed.
XLVIII. Any woman may voluntarily by a submission in writing signed by her voluntary Submission in the presence of and attested by the Registrar General subject herself to a periodical by Woman. Medical Examination under this Ordinance for any period not exceeding One Year.
Detention in Hospital.
XLIX. If on any Medical Examination under this Ordinance the woman Certificate of Visiting examined is found to be affected with a Contagious Disease she shall thereupon be Surgeon. liable to be detained in a Hospital subject and according to the Provisions of this 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.
L. Where a woman certified by a Visiting Surgeon to be affected with a Detention in Contagious Disease is placed as aforesaid in a Hospital for Medical Treatment she Hospital. 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.
another Certified
LI. 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 Hospital. 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.
LII. 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.
LIII. If any woman detained in any Hospital considers herself entitled to be Power to apply for discharged there from and the Visiting Surgeon refuses to discharge her such woman
discharge.
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