Annual report of the Department of Health, Ontario, Canada.

  • Ontario. Department of Health
Date:
[1939]
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Credit: Annual report of the Department of Health, Ontario, Canada. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    53/226 (page 51)
    The regulations pursuant to The Sanatoria for Consumptives Act, approved by an Order- in-Council dated the 22nd day of June, 1938, are amended as follows: 1. Regulation number 10 is repealed and the following substituted therefor: No person who has previously been discharged from a sanatorium on account of misdemeanor or lack of co-operation, shall be re-admitted as a patient in a sanatorium without the consent of the superintendent of the sanatorium to which such person desires admission. 2. Regulation number 25 of the said regulations is amended by adding thereto the following subsection: (2) In the event that it is necessary for the superintendent to transfer a patient from a sanatorium to a hospital under The Public Hospitals Act in order that such patient may have performed upon him a surgical operation for a tuberculous condition of the lung, the Department may pay Provincial aid to the sanatorium at the rate of $2.07J^ for each day that such patient is in the public hospital, and in such event the sanatorium shall pay the public hospital $2.35 for each day that such patient is in the public hospital, but the approval of an inspector shall be obtained before a patient is transferred under this section. 3. The said regulations are amended by adding thereto the following: 25a Out of any moneys payable to a sanatorium for Provincial aid the Department may at any time make such deductions as the director shall determine, on account of any patient who is not suffering from tuberculosis. 4. Regulation number 26 of the said regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following words: “or such greater amount as an inspector may authorize upon application by the superintendent.” 5. Regulation number 27 of the said regulations is amended by adding thereto the following subsection: (2) Every sanatorium shall do everything necessary to ensure that any baby born in the sanatorium shall not contract any tuberculous or other infection.