CHAPTER 16.

An Ordinance to make Regulations with respect to Coal Mines.

(C.O., c. 16)

Chapter 25, 1906, substituted; amended c. 20, s. 16, 1908;

c. 2, s. 13, 1910 (2nd Session).

CHAPTER 17.

An Ordinance respecting Steam Boilers.

(1901, c. 7)

Chapter 23, 1906, substituted; amended c. 5, s. 18, 1907;

c. 20, s. 14, 1908; c. 5, s. 8, 1909.

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(Repealed, 1901, c. 4, s. 78.)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

Short title

THE

CHAPTER 20.

An Ordinance to regulate Public Aid to Hospitals.

HE 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
Commissioner

Department

Patient

Aid to hospitals

Lieutenant

Governor in

INTERPRETATION.

2. In this Ordinance unless the context otherwise requires1. The expression "commissioner" means the Commissioner of Agriculture;

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 thirty-five cents per ap. 4. 191-1 day for each day's actual treatment and stay of every patient in such hospital.] 1910, c. 2, s. 2.

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 [Repealed.] 1907, c. 5, s. 12, s.s. (2).

5. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may prescribe Council may regulations respecting the management, maintenance and accommodation of all hospitals receiving public aid under this Ordinance. 1901, c. 8, s. 5.

prescribe

regulations

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