An Ordinance respecting Inquiries concerning Public

Matters.

(C.O., c. 12)

Chapter 2, 1908, substituted.

CHAPTER 13.

An Ordinance respecting Security to be given by Public Officers.

(C.O., c. 13)

Chapter 10, 1908, substituted.

CHAPTER 14.

An Ordinance respecting the Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths.

(C.O., c. 14)

Chapter 13, 1907, substituted.

CHAPTER 15.

An Ordinance respecting the Expropriation of Lands.

(Repealed, 1901, c. 4, s. 78.)

CHAPTER 16.

An Ordinance to make Regulations with respect to Coal

Mines.

(C.O., c. 16)

Chapter 25, 1906, substituted.

An Ordinance respecting Steam Boilers.

(1901, c. 7)

Chapter 23, 1906, substituted.

CHAPTER 18.

An Ordinance respecting Ferries.

(Repealed, 1901, c. 4, s. 78.)

CHAPTER 19.

An Ordinance respecting Public Health.

(1902, c. 4)

Chapter 17, 1910 (2nd Session), substituted.

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Short title

CHAPTER 20.

An Ordinance to regulate Public Aid to Hospitals.

THE Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories, enacts as follows:

SHORT TITLE.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Hospitals Ordinance." 1901, c. 8, s. 1.

INTERPRETATION.

Interpretation

2. In this Ordinance unless the context otherwise requires— Commissioner 1. The expression "commissioner" means the Commissioner of Agriculture;

Department

Patient

Aid to hospitals

Lieutenant

Governor in Council may prescribe regulations

2. The expression "department" means the Department of Agriculture;

3. The expression "patient" means every person admitted to a hospital for actual treatment and stay upon the order of a duly qualified medical practitioner. 1901, c. 8, s. 2.

3. To each hospital in the province filing with the department the returns mentioned in section 6 of this Ordinance, there may be paid out of any moneys appropriated in that behalf by the Legislative Assembly the sum of twenty-five cents per day for each day's actual treatment and stay of every patient in such hospital. 1910, c. 2, s. 2; 1911-12, c. 4, s. 4.

4. Repealed, 1907, c. 5, s. 12, ss. (2).

5. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may prescribe regulations respecting the management, maintenance and accommodation of all hospitals receiving public aid under this Ordinance. 1901, c. 8, s. 5. (See page 37 hereof for the regulations made under this section.)

When and how returns

to be made

RETURNS.

6. Any hospital receiving aid from the province shall forward to the department by registered mail within thirty days after the thirtieth day of June and thirty-first day of December of each year a return showing the number of days' actual treatment and stay of every patient in such hospital for the preceding six months, and the commissioner may from time to time fix and direct the particulars to be contained in and the form, manner and time of making returns; and shall fix and direct the form and manner of oath, affirmation or declaration required for the verification of any such return and the person or persons by whom such oath shall be made. 1901, c. 8, s. 6; 1907, c. 5, s. 12.

INSPECTION OF HOSPITALS.

7. The commissioner may appoint one or more inspectors to Inspection of hospitals inspect and report upon every such hospital; and for such purpose such inspector or inspectors shall make all proper inquiries as to the maintenance, management and affairs thereof, and by examination of the registers and by such other means as may be deemed necessary satisfy himself or themselves as to the correctness of any returns made under this Ordinance.

(2) If any inspector should report that any patient was not a fit subject for hospital treatment for all or part of the time during which he was kept in the hospital the commissioner may refuse to make any payment in respect of such patient for the time during which he is so reported as not being a fit subject for hospital treatment. 1901, c. 8, s. 7.

FALSE RETURNS.

making false

8. Any person who knowingly and wilfully makes or is a party Penalty for to or procures to be made directly or indirectly any false return return under this Ordinance shall thereby incur a penalty of $100, which penalty may be recovered with costs by civil action or proceeding at the suit of the Attorney General in any form allowed by law in the Supreme Court of the Territories. 1901, c. 8, s. 8.

9. The Hospitals Ordinance, being chapter 20 of The Con- Repeal solidated Ordinances, 1898, is hereby repealed. 1901, c. 8,

s. 9.

10. This Ordinance shall come into force on the first day Commenceof July, A.D. 1901. 1901, c. 8, s. 10.

ment

REGULATIONS

(Inserted for convenience only and subject to change by Order in Council.) Prescribed under Section 5, respecting the management, maintenance and accommodation of all hospitals in The Province of Alberta receiving public aid.

1. These regulations shall apply to hospitals receiving public aid under The Hospitals Ordinance only.

2. In these regulations unless the context otherwise requires(a) The expression "aid" shall mean public aid granted under The Hospitals Ordinance.

(b) The expression "ward" shall mean every room in the hospital occupied or to be occupied by patients for treatment.

3. All plans and specifications for the building of, or addition to, or alterations in hospitals, shall, before such work is begun, be submitted to the Provincial Medical Officer of Health for approval, and until such approval is given no work shall be commenced on the construction of any hospital.

4. Every hospital hereafter built or constructed over three stories in height shall be fireproof throughout.

5. In any building already constructed wholly or mainly of wood used as a hospital, of three or more stories high, no patient shall be accommodated or treated above the second storey.

6. In every hospital, each ward shall be of such dimensions as to give each patient at least 800 cubic feet of air space; every room therein shall have at least one window connected with external air for every two beds; and provision shall be made to secure to each patient at least 2,400 cubic feet of fresh air per hour, either by artificial or natural ventilation.

7. The cellar or basement floor of every hospital shall be properly cemented and water-tight.

8. Each floor of every hospital shall have a corridor or hall running from one end to the other without obstruction, and the door into each ward shall open from said hall or corridor.

9. The windows and doors of every hospital shall be properly screened so as to prevent the entrance of flies.

10. Every hospital shall be provided, within the building, with adequate water hose, and chemical fire extinguishers or other fire apparatus, satisfactory to the Provincial Medical Officer of Health and shall be provided with fire escapes outside the building wall, of such shape and size that will permit bedridden patients to be safely removed therefrom, and the same shall be satisfactory to the Provincial Medical Officer of Health.

11. There shall be provided in every hospital a clinical laboratory equipped to the satisfaction of the Provincial Medical Officer of Health.

12. Every hospital shall be provided with proper means for disinfecting all clothing, bed linen, blankets and mattresses used in every case of typhoid fever, tuberculosis, or other infectious, contagious or communicable disease, and the same shall be disinfected immediately after removal from bed of patient.

13. There shall be provided in every hospital a suitable building or room to be used as a mortuary, and the same shall be equipped to the satisfaction of the Provincial Medical Officer of Health.

14. There shall be employed in every hospital at least two graduate nurses.

15. A graduate nurse shall be in charge of the operation room in every hospital.

16. There shall be provided in connection with every hospital, accommodation for cases of pulmonary tuberculosis, either in separate rooms, buildings or tents, properly equipped; provided