Section 6 amended Dispensing with written order Section 7 amended Admissions to sanatorium Admissions to home for incurables 4. Section 6 of the said Act is amended (a) as to subsection (3) thereof by adding after the words "local authority" where they occur for the first time in paragraph (b) thereof the words “for at least three successive months." (b) By striking out subsection (5) thereof and substituting therefor the following: "(5) Such written order may be dispensed with in respect of hospital treatment of the sick person, if the case was one of urgent and sudden necessity and if the superintendent or medical officer of the hospital so certified to the local authority." (c) By adding subsection (5a) thereto as follows: "(5a) In case of dispute a full report shall be forwarded to the Minister, whose decision shall be final." 5. Section 7 of the said Act is amended by striking out subsection (8) thereof. 6. Section 7b is added to the said Act as follows: "THE SANATORIUM. "7b.-(1) Admissions to the Sanatorium, other than those admitted on the order and at the expense of the Federal military authorities, shall be by order or direction of the Department. "(2) Previous to the admission to the Sanatorium of a resident within an area controlled by a local authority, notice of his intended admission shall be given by registered mail to such local authority. "(3) The amounts per diem payable to the Department in respect of patients shall be according to the classification set out in the schedule to this Act, and may be changed from time to time by the Lieutenant Governor in Council. "(4) Subsections (1) and (3) of this section and the schedule hereto shall have effect as from November eighteenth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty." 7. Section 7c is added to the said Act as follows: "7c. Admissions to a home for incurables shall be by contract between the local authority of the area of which the person is a resident and the Home for Incurables to which the person is admitted, and any contract so made and approved of by the Minister shall be valid notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act or any other Act or any limitation as to charges contained therein. 8. A schedule is added to the said Act as follows: "SCHEDULE "CLASSIFICATION OF PATIENTS ADMITTED TO THE SANATORIUM (Section 7b.) "Class 1.-Residents of Alberta. "(1) The local authority of the area of which every such person is a resident shall pay as and when required by the Department at the rate of one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) per day for every day such person remains an inmate. "Class 2.-Non-residents of Alberta who are able to pay for treatment. "(2) Such patients shall pay to the Department three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50) per day, payable in advance, monthly. "Class 3.-Persons seeking admission other than those mentioned in the two foregoing classes. "(3) Such persons shall be admitted at such rates and on such conditions as may be arranged by the Department. "(4) Persons seeking admission for a limited period for "(a) If a resident of Alberta, one dollar and fifty "(b) if a non-resident, three dollars and fifty cents per day." Schedule added of other 9. The provisions of this Act shall supersede, in so far Supersession as is necessary to give effect thereto, the provisions of The Acts Town Act, The Village Act, The Municipal Districts Act, The Improvement Districts Act, and of all Acts or Ordinances incorporating any city or forming part of the charter thereof. 10. This Act shall come into force on the day upon which Coming into it is assented to. force 1924 CHAPTER 27. An Act respecting Hospital Facilities in connection with the University of Alberta. (Assented to April 12th, 1924.) WHEREAS by an instrument dated the thirty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, the Governors of the University of Alberta (hereinafter called "the Governors") leased to the City of Strathcona lands for the erection of a hospital; and Whereas by chapter 57 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1922, provision is made for the constitution of a board of management of the said hospital as a body corporate, for the appointment of the members of the said board by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, the Governors, and the City of Edmonton, successors in title of the City of Strathcona (and hereinafter called "the city"), and for payment by the city in respect of hospital service to its residents; and Whereas the city has agreed, subject to confirmation by the Legislature, to sell to the Governors the said hospital and all its property rights therein and in the said lease in consideration of the issue to it, by the Governors, of debentures for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars bearing interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum; Now therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The University of Alberta Short title Hospital Act." of sale 2. The said agreement for sale is hereby confirmed and Confirmation the Governors and the city are hereby declared to have had full capacity and power to enter into the same, and all rights of property in the said hospital and in the lands leased in connection therewith are hereby vested in the Governors absolutely, and the Governors are hereby authorized and directed to issue the debentures as above mentioned. ment by city 3. (1) There shall be paid annually by the city to the Annual payGovernors the sum of thirty-seven and a half cents per day or part of a day for each in-patient of the said hospital who is a resident of the city. (2) The preceding subsection shall not in any way affect the liability of any such patient, if not an indigent, to pay Repeal Coming into force for his treatment in the hospital, nor the right of the Governors to receive and retain all such payments. (3) The words "indigent" and "resident" in this section shall have the same meaning as in The Hospitals Act. 4. The University of Alberta Hospital Act, being chapter 57 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1922, is hereby repealed. 5. This Act shall come into force on the day upon which it is assented to. |