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Credit: The Australasian medical directory and handbook / edited by Ludwig Bruck. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![Foiuersof Board of IIoalth.—TYic. Board of Health shall be the authority to cany out (subject to any orders, directions, and general regulations which may lx; made by the Governor) the powers of isolation and all other jjowers conferrefl by the second section of the Act thii’d William the Fourth number one, and subject to the approval of the Governor, it shall be lawful for the said Board to define, by notification in the Gazette, any district in the Colony, now or hereafter, to be placed under the charge of a Government Medical Officer, and in like manner to amend, alter or extend the boundaries of any such district. CERTIFICATES IN LUNACY (1879). (42 Vic., No. 7.) Medical Certificates.—Any person deemed to be insane may be received and detained as a patient in a hospital for the insane, or a licensed house, on two medical certificates, according to the following form :— I, the undersigned, being a Medical Practitioner, hereby certify that I, on the day of one thousand eight hundi-ed and at (here insert the 2}a,rticlars of the place of examination, as the street, iivmher of the house, or other partieulars) separately from any other Medical Practitioner personally examined of (insert residence and 2>rofession or occupation, if any) and that the said is (insane or an idiot) and a proper person to be taken charge of and detained under care and treat- ment, and that I have formed this opinion upon the following grounds, viz.:— 1. Facts indicating insanity observed by myself (here state the facts). 2. Other facts (if any) indicating insanity communicated to me by others (here state the information and from whom). Dated this day of one thousand eight hundred and (Signed) Place of abode Each certificate must be signed by a Medical Practitioner, who shall, separately from the Medical Practitioner who shall have signed or shall thereafter sign the other of such certificates, have personally examined the person to whom such certificate relates not more than ten clear days previously to the reception of such person into such hospital or licensed house. Every Medical Practitioner who shall sign any certificate, shall specify therein the facts upon which he has formed his opinion that the person to whom such certificate relates is an insane pei'son, and shall distin- guish in such certificate facts observed by himself from facts communicated to him by others, and no person shall be received into any hospital for the insaire or licensed house under any certificate which purports to be founded only upon facts communicated by others. Who not to Sigri Certificates, c^'o.—No Medical Practitioner whose father, brother, son, partner, or assistant shall have signed the order or request, or one of the certificates for the reception of a patient into an hospital for the insane, reception house, or licensed house, shall sign any certificate for the reception of the same patient, and no Medical Practitioner who, or whose father, brother, son, partner, or assistant, shall be the superintendent of, or a medical officer of an hospital for the insane, recep- tion house, or licensed house, or a regular professional attendant in a licensed house, or wholly or partly the proprietor or the mortgagee or lessee of a licensed house, or who shall receive a percentage on or otherwise be interested in the payments to be made by or on account of any patient received into such hospital, reception house, or licensed house, shall sign any order, request, or certificate for the reception of a patient into any such hospital, rcocption-housc, or licensed house. And no Medical Practitioner shall himself or by his servants or agents receive to board or lodge in any licenscil house, or take the ch.argc or care of any person upon or under any medical certificate signed by himself or his father, brother, son, ]iartncr or assistant. And no Medical Practitioner, having signed any certificate for the reception of any person into a licensed house, shall be the regular professional attendant of such person while under care or charge under such certificate. No Certificate to he granted without E.ramination.—If any Medical Practitioner shall grant any such certificate as aforesaid without having seen and carefully examined the person to whom it relates at the time and in the manner specified in such certi- ficate for the purpose of ascertaining the condition of such person to the best of his](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28034272_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
