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Mental Hospitals.

[CAP. 136

G.

HONG KONG.

FORM 5.

R.

Form of order to be given by the senior medical officer for the time being present in and on the staff of a hospital for the removal to a mental hospital for the purpose of detention and observation of a patient who shows symptoms of suffering from delirium tremens.

Mental Hospitals Ordinance, s. 12 (Chapter 136 of the Revised Edition.)

I,

being the senior officer for the time being present in and on the staff of the ...Hospital, have examined a patient in the said hospital and find that he shows symptoms of suffering from delirium tremens and I hereby order him to be removed from the said hospital to the Government Mental Hospital and to be detained there under observation for a period not exceeding seven days from and including the date of this order.

Dated the ...day of ...19......

(Signature).

NOTE--The medical officer signing this order must be a registered medical practitioner, or a Government medical officer, or a medical officer of His Majesty's Navy, Army or Air Force serving in the Colony on full pay, or a professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong.

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Mental Hospitals. [CAP. 136 G. HONG KONG. FORM 5. R. Form of order to be given by the senior medical officer for the time being present in and on the staff of a hospital for the removal to a mental hospital for the purpose of detention and observation of a patient who shows symptoms of suffering from delirium tremens. Mental Hospitals Ordinance, s. 12 (Chapter 136 of the Revised Edition.) I, being the senior officer for the time being present in and on the staff of the ...Hospital, have examined a patient in the said hospital and find that he shows symptoms of suffering from delirium tremens and I hereby order him to be removed from the said hospital to the Government Mental Hospital and to be detained there under observation for a period not exceeding seven days from and including the date of this order. Dated the ...day of ...19...... (Signature). NOTE--The medical officer signing this order must be a registered medical practitioner, or a Government medical officer, or a medical officer of His Majesty's Navy, Army or Air Force serving in the Colony on full pay, or a professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong. 51
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Mental Hospitals. [CAP. 136 G. HONG KONG. FORM 5. R. Form of order to be given by the senior medical officer for the time being present in and on the staff of a hospital for the removal to a mental hospital for the purpose of detention and observation of a patient who shows symptoms of suffering from delirium tremens. Mental Hospitals Ordinance, s. 12 (Chapter 136 of the Revised Edition.) I, being the senior officer for the time being present in and on the staff of the .Hospital, have examined a patient in the said hospital and find that he shows symptoms of suffering from delirium tremens and I hereby order him to be removed from the said hospital to the Government Mental Hospital and to be detained there under observation for a period not exceeding seven days from and includ- ing the date of this order. Dated the ..day of 19...... (Signature). NOTE--The medical officer signing this order must be a registered medical practi- tioner, or a Government medical officer, or a medical officer of His Majesty's Navy, Army or Air Force serving in the Colony on full pay, or a professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong. 51
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Mental Hospitals.

[CAP. 136

G.

HONG KONG.

FORM 5.

R.

Form of order to be given by the senior medical officer for the time being present in and on the staff of a hospital for the removal to a mental hospital for the purpose of detention and observation of a patient who shows symptoms of suffering from delirium tremens.

Mental Hospitals Ordinance, s. 12 (Chapter 136 of the Revised Edition.)

I,

being the

senior officer for the time being present in and on the staff of

the

.Hospital, have examined

a patient in the said hospital

and find that he shows symptoms of suffering from delirium tremens

and I hereby order him to be removed from the said hospital to

the Government Mental Hospital and to be detained there under

observation for a period not exceeding seven days from and includ-

ing the date of this order.

Dated the

..day of

19......

(Signature).

NOTE--The medical officer signing this order must be a registered medical practi- tioner, or a Government medical officer, or a medical officer of His Majesty's Navy, Army or Air Force serving in the Colony on full pay, or a professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong.

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