Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-12-16
THE MAINE GENERAL HOSPITAL.
Rules of Admission.

We have received pamphlet containing the
rules and regulations Of the Maine General Hos
pital at Portland, ard publish that portion which
is Of public interest:
Applications for admission of patients shall be
made to the resident physician at the hospital on
each day, Sundays excepted, between and Il A.
NJ. When able should apply in person. Appllca-
lions from places elsewhere than Portland must
be made in writing, addressed TO the resident
physician, and, when practicable, by the attend
ing physician of the patient, accompanied by de-
scription OF the case.
Persons accidentally wounded or otherwise dis
abled or injured, shall be received at all hours.
lncurable cases, and those of long standing
which admit only of temporary allevaton are
not regarded, in general as suitable subjects for
admission. No patient shall be admitted with any
contagious disease.
Patients may be admitted to the hospital at such
rates OF board as may be from time to time deter
mined by the directors; such board being secured
by sufficient deposit on admission, or other guar
antee equally satisfactory; or they may be adj
mitted at discretion to unoccupied beds.
The price Of board shall be so low as to make
the hospital to as great extent charitable in
stution as its funds will permit and in each in
stance shall be graduated as nearly as possible,
according to the circumstances Of the patients,
and to the accommodations they may receive.
VISITORS.
No visitors shall be admitted to the hospital
without special permit from one of the direc-
tors ply sclan or surgeon of the hospital, or he
resident physician.
On each day of the week, Sundays excepted,
from to O'Clock, friends may be admitted to
visit patients in the wards; it being understood
that no patient in any ward shall receive more
than one visitor at time, ard that patient in
any female ward shall be visited by male friend,
other than her father, son, husband or brother.
All visitors must leave when the bell rings at
the expiration of the visiting hour.
Patients in private rooms may be visited by
their friends at any suitable hours in the daytime
by permission of The resident phys In all
cases however, the resident physician may exercise
Discretionary powers to excluding or admitting
visitors.
Patients must be in their proper places in the
wards during the visit of the physicians and sur
geons, and always by z. NJ, unless specially ex-
empted by the resident physician.
No person, except the physicians of the hospi-
tai, shall speak of the health Of patient in the
presence CT such patient.
FREE BEDS.
Free beds may be established by either of the
four following modes, viz: first, by the annual
payment of $3.50; second, by the payment Of
$1,000, at any one time, permanent founda-
ton; third, by the payment of a sum less than
$1,000, which shall be allowed to accumulate till
it amounts to that sum, when the foundation will
be complete; fourth, by annual, other contri-
buttons than those heretofore mentioned, in such
sums as the contributors may be able or willing TO
give for the establishment OF free bed fund the
principal to be safely invested by the Treasurer
with the advice Of the Committee on Finance, and
the interest to be appropriated for the benefit of
the poor who may require hospital treatment and
care.
Parties thus endowing free beds shall have the
privilege of naming persons, who, if regularly ad-
mitted, shall occupy said beds. In case of yacan-
cies, where no such nomination is made, these
beds may be filed in the same manner as other
free beds, according to the rules of the Hospital.
Any individual in good health, on payment of
500, shall be entitled to the free use Of bed for
| the term of one year from the date of said pay
ment.
| No free patient shall be continued after the
| term of three months without special vote of
the Directors for that purpose.