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ORDINANCE No. 9 OF 1885. 1917


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.