An Ordinance to provide for the medical wants of immigrant labourers in certain planting districts.

  • British Ceylon
Date:
1880
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An Ordinance to provide for the medical wants of immigrant labourers in certain planting districts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    D)]tipg 21. IT shall be the duty of every kankani employed upon an estate i • t-d OB to jive information to the superintendent of every case of sickness kuukani. iu his ga-.ir, and any kankani who shall neglect or refuse to give suck information 10 the superintendent shall be guilty of an offence, and liable on conviction to a line not exceeding twenty rupees. Governor in 22. IT shall be lawful for the Governor, with the advice of the Council may Executive Council, to make regulations tor the following purposes, make rules. aiKj from time to time to revoke, alter or amend such regula- tions :— (a) For the guidance of the district medical officers ami medical assistants in their duties : (b) For the regulation and management of the district hospitals and dispensaries, and the maintenance of order and clean- liness therein, and for the issue at prime cost of medi- cines to superintendents for the use of labourers : (c) For regulating the private practice of the district medical officers, so that it shall not interfere with their duties under this Ordinance, and for settling the fees to be paid by proprietors, superintendents or assistant superinten- dents to the district medical officer for medical attend- Rscovery of money due for subsistence and medical atteuduncs. ance : (d) To provide for keeping by the medical officer at each hos- piial or dispensary under his charge, a register of all cases treated therein, whether as iu or out patients : Prescribing and regulating returns to be made in relation to his duties by the medical officer. The regulations so made shall be published in the Government Gazette, and a printed copy of the regulations made for the management of district hospitals and dispensaries, respectively, shall he hung up for public information in every district hospital or dispensary. 93 WHEN any sum of money shall be payable under the 15th or 19th clause of this Ordinance, it shall be the duty of the Government Agent to give notice in writing to the superintendent of the estate in respect of which the sume is payable, requiting ,he payment thereof within one month after such notice, and m default ol such payment it shall be lawful for the fiovernment Atr(>n, or any person authorized by him in writing in that behalf to seize once oroftener, all the crops, live stock and implements, or any nart thereof found on the estate, liable in respect of such sum, or any other article or thing whatsoever belonging to the proprietor or any of the proprietors of such estate, until the full amount due by such estate shall be recovered. If there be no sufficient crops, live, stock or implements on such estate to realize the amount due, i t shall be lawful for the Government Agent or othor person authorized as aforesaid to cause the timber on the said estate to be cut, or the materials of the buildings erected thereon to be removed, and to sell the same. And, unless the sum due shall be sooner paid, with the costs and charges incurred in respect of such seizure, it ahaU be law- ful for such Government Agent or any person us aforesaid to sill property so seized by public auction at any time after thirty daj s U-om the date of seizure ; perishable property, however may ue sold * n day. from (be date of «.ch se-zure. Prov.ded how.ror that uo seizure shall take place under this clause for any sum of money which shall have been iu arrearfor a period of oue jear.