Amendments of the Canberra Community Hospital By-laws (ACT)

By-laws under the Canberra Community Hospital

Board Ordinances 1935.

PURSUANT to the powers conferred upon it by the Canberra Community Hospital Board Ordinances 1935, the Canberra	Community Hospital Board hereby makes tbe following amendments
to By-laws.

Dated this nineteenth day of August., 1936.

The Common Seal of the Canberra Community Hospital Board

was hereto fixed in the presence of—

J O H N S. CKAPP, Chairman.

(L.S.) F. C. GREEN, Member.
S. ANDERSON, Secretary.

AMENDMENTS OF THE CANBERRA COMMUNITY

HOSPITAL BY-LAWS.

1. By-law 14 of Part I I . is repealed and the following by-law inserted in its stead:—
"14. He shall, when necessary, assist in consultation with the Honorary Medical Officers, and shall administer anaesthetics in the cases of necessitous patients, and in other cases by arrangement with the Visiting or Honorary Medical Officers."

2. Part X. is amended—
(a) by omitting from the provisions headed "H.—General",

the words " and hypodermic injections", and inserting in their stead the words " , hypodermic injections, oxygen and other special requirements"; and

(o) by adding at the end of the provisions headed "H.—

General " the following:—

" CHABGES FOB USE OF GAS-OXYGEN PLANT.

Persons eligible for benefits under Section 17 of the Ordinance—

s. d.

Occupying beds in private wards 12 6

„ „ „ intermediate wards 10 0

„ „ „ general wards 5 0

Out-patients and dental cases . .	5	0
Other patients	20	0
s.	d
In-patients—per application	2	6

(a) Special nursing facilities will be available only with the approval of the'Medical Superintendent.

holidays, or in cases of accident or emergency.";

(c) by adding the following new by-laws:—

(b) If patients or relatives request or insist on the services of a special nurse, such services must be paid for by the responsible person at cost to the Board.

(c) Patients in private and intermediate wards shall meet all special nursing expenses at cost to the Board less 33£ per cent, reduc- tion, but no charge shall be made to patients in general wards.

(d) Persons not eligible for benefits under Section 17 of. the Ordinance shall meet all special nursing expenses at cost to the Board.".

3. The provisions headed " Out-patient Department" in Part XI . are amended—

(a) by omitting from by-law 1 the words "recommended for

treatment by Honorary Medical Officers";

(b) by omitting by-law 4 and inserting in its stead the

following by-law:—

" 4 . The hours for treatment of out-patients shall be
from 9.30 a.m. to 11 a.m. daily excepting on Sundays,

" 5. The recommendation by a visiting Medical Officer for treatment of a patient as an out-patient shall be in the following form:—

Canberra Community Hospital Board.

To—

The Medical Superintendent.

Please admit to Out-patients' Department for

observation and treatment.

(Signed)

Visiting Medical Officer.

Date.

"•6. Application by necessitous patients for out-patient

treatment shall be in the following form:—

Canberra. Community Hospital Board.

APPLICATION FOB ADMISSION FOE OUT-PATIENT TREATMENT.

Address to—

'The Secretary,

Canberra Community Hospital Board,

Canberra.

Medical attendant, Dr
Name
Address
Occupation

Are you a member of a Friendly Society or Lodge providing medical benefits?

Are you entitled to payment under Workmen's Compensation Ordinance?.-
Weekly income from occupation
Regular or intermittent employment
Name of employer
If intermittent, how much work during the last six months
Whether married or single
Number of children or dependants
Ages of children (youngest and eldest)

Have you or dependants any income available other than from regular or

intermittent employment ?—Give particulars

What is the total weekly earnings of your family ?

Are there any other details of your financial position you desire to state? If

so, what are they ?

I, , state that the above information

is, to the best of my belief, true in every particular.

(Signed)

NOTE.—-By-law No. 7 relating to Out-patients' Department reads as folkrws:—
' Any person who makes or furnishes any statement required by these

By-laws which is false in any material particular shall be guilty of an

offence. Penalty: Five pounds.'

In my opinion the patient is entitled to free out-patient treatment.

Secretary.

" 7. Any person who makes or furnishes any statement
required by these By-laws which is false in any material

particular shall be guilty of an offence. Pena l ty : Five

pounds.".

4. After P a r t X I . the following P a r t is added:—

• " X I I . — V E H I C L E S IN HOSPITAL GROUNDS.

1.  A driver of a vehicle in the Hospital grounds— (a) shall not. except for the purpose of taking up or setting

down a patient or passenger, stop the vehicle in any portion of the drive-way immediately in front of the south-eastern side of the administrative block (the main entrance) of the Hospi ta l ;

(&) who has stopped the vehicle in such portion of the drive- way for the purpose of taking up or setting down a patient or passenger shall remove the vehicle therefrom forthwith after the patient or passenger has been taken up or set down;
(c) shall not park the vehicle at any place in the hospital grounds other than a place set apart as a parking area for vehicles; and

(d) shall at all times comply with all notices exhibited in the

hospital grounds relating to vehicles or traffic.

2. Any person who commits a breach of this by-law shall upon

conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding Five pounds.".