SOUTHLAND HOSPITAL

Southland Times, Issue 17193, 12 November 1912, Page 4

SOUTHLAND HOSPITAL

(From the Weekly Times, Saturday. February 17, 1866). Rules for the Admission of Patients, and th© General Management of the Provincial Hospital. I. Applications for Admission, except in cases of emergency, must be made off Mondays and Thursdays, between the hours of 10 and 12 a.m. ■> None shall receive gratuitous medical’aid at the Hospital unless they can produce satisfactoiy evidence of their inability to pay for medical advice. 3. The entertaining of ail Applications will rest with the Medical Staff, except when such applications are accompanied bv a written order from Superintendent. 4 Patients for out-door treatment are to apply at the Hospital on Mondays and Thursdays, between the hours of 11 o'clock a.m. and 12 noon. 5. Cases of Accident and Emergency are admissible at ail times. 6. Visitors are permitted to see their friends in the Hospital on Mondays and Thursdays, between the houns of 2 o’clock and 4 p.m. NT. Patients can be visited by their respective Clergy daily, between the hours of 2 o'clock and 4 p.m. 8. Seamen may be admitted, provided Masters of Vessels or others responsible for such payments shall deposit Five Pounds (£3) with the Resident Surgeon, and enter into an agreement to pay any sum over and above that amount which may be incurred for treatment, burial, or other necessary expenses. <l. No articles of diet, intoxicating liquors, clothing, or medicine, are to be introduced into the Hospital by the friends of patients or others, without the express sanction of the Resident Surgeon. JO. A breach of Rule No. 0 will result in denying admittance to such visitor or others committing the same, and, when circumstances permit, the instant dismissal of the patient for whose use they were intended. 11. In all ca'cs of theft or drunkenness, the Resident Surgeon is empowered to immediately dismiss the person offending, or hand the same over to the Police. 12. In-door patients leaving the promises without a proper discharge, or the permission of the Resident. Surgeon, will render themselves liable to ve-admit-tancc being refused JXO P. TAYLOR, Superintendent.