ORDINANCE No. 9 OF 1885.
Prison.
120. The Superintendent shall place at the disposal of the Surgeon well conducted prisoners, who can safely be entrusted with the duty of attending upon the sick, not exceeding in number one to every ten patients.
121. The Surgeon shall report to the Superintendent any irregularity in the gaol hospital which may come to his knowledge, or any difficulty or obstruction which he may meet with in the performance of his duty.
122. The Surgeon is to examine all candidates for employment as subordinate officers or servants of the gaol, and report whether they possess the necessary qualifications as to health and strength.
123. The Surgeon 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.
124. The Surgeon'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.
125. The Surgeon shall deliver to the Colonial Secretary, as soon as possible after the close of December 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 gaol, and what diseases have been most prevalent therein. He shall point out any defects in the construction or management of the gaol to which such sickness may be attributed, and also what precautions should be taken to prevent the same.
THE CHAPLAINS.
126. The Chaplains shall conduct divine service with the prisoners of their respective religions at least once on Sundays, and perform such other 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.
127. The same privileges shall be allowed to every recognised minister in respect of the prisoners of his own religion.
128. The Chaplains shall inform the Superintendent whenever they may observe the mind of any prisoner to be liable to be injuriously affected by any punishment awarded.
129. No prisoner shall be obliged to attend any service to which he may object on religious grounds, unless in the opinion of the Superintendent such objection is frivolous and vexatious.
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ORDINANCE No. 9 OF 1885.
Prison.
120. The Superintendent shall place at the disposal of the Surgeon well conducted prisoners, who can safely be entrusted with the duty of attending upon the sick, not exceeding in number one to every ten patients.
121. The Surgeon shall report to the Superintendent any irregularity in the gaol hospital which may come to his knowledge, or any difficulty or obstruction which he may meet with in the performance of his duty.
122. The Surgeon is to examine all candidates for employment as subordinate officers or servants of the gaol, and report whether they possess the necessary qualifica- tions as to health and strength.
123. The Surgeon 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.
124. The Surgeon'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.
125. The Surgeon shall deliver to the Colonial Secretary, as soon as possible after the close of December 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 gaol, and what diseases have been most prevalent therein. He shall point out any defects in the construction or management of the gaol to which such sickness may be attributed, and also what precautions should be taken to prevent the same.
THE CHAPLAINS.
126. The Chaplains shall conduct divine service with the prisoners of their res- pective religions at least once on Sundays, and perform such other 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.
127. The same privileges shall be allowed to every recognised minister in respect of the prisoners of his own religion.
128. The Chaplains shall inform the Superintendent whenever they may observe the mind of any prisoner to be liable to be injuriously affected by any punishment awarded.
129. No prisoner shall be obliged to attend any service to which he may object on religious grounds, unless in the opinion of the Superintendent such objection is frivolous and vexatious.
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