The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-12-15
MAINE GENERAL HOSPITAL.


The proper authorities of the Maine General
Hospital have agreed upon certain regulations
as to the admission of patients, the calls of Wis
itors. and free beds, which are in effect as fol-
| lows:
Applications for admission of patients shall
| be made to the resident physician at the hospl-
and II a. m. When able shall apply in person.
Applications from places elsewhere than Port
| land must be made in writing. addressed to
the resident physician, and, When practicable,
by the attending physician of the patient, ac-
companied by description of the case.
Persons accidentally wounded or otherwise
disabled or injured, shall be received at all
hours.
lneurable cases, and those of long standing
which admit only of temporary alienation, are
rot regarded, in general, as suitable suo]ects
for admission No patient shall be admitted
with any highly contagious disease
Patients may he admitted to the hospital at
such rates of board as may be from time 10
time determined by the dIrectors such Doard
being secured by a sufficient deposit on admls'
sion, or other guarantee equally satisfactory;
or they may be admitted at discretion 10 unoc-
cupied beds.
The price of DO lrd shall be so low as to make
the hospital to as great an extent charitable
institution as its fund swill permit; and In each
Instance shall be graduated as nearly as posi-
Bile, according to the circumstances of the pa
TENTS 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, physician or surgeon OF the hospital, or
the resident physician.
On each day of the week, Sundays excepted
from to 3 O'Clock, friends may be admitted to
visit patients in the wards; it being understood
that no patient in any ward shall receive more
han one visitor at time, and that no 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 bours in the day
time by permission of the res dent physician.
In all cases. however, the resident physician
may exercise discretionary powers as to exclud-
ing or admitting visitors
Patients must be in their proper places in the
wards during the visit of the physicians and
surgeons, and always by p. m, unless spec
tally exempted by the resident physician.
No person, except the physicians of the hos
pital, shall speak of the health of patient in
the presence of such a-patent.
FREE BEDS.
Free beds may be established by either of
the four following modes, viz: first, by the an
nual payment of $780, second. by the payment
dation; third. by the payment of a sum less
than $4,000, which shall be allowed to acc9mu-
late till it amounts to that sum, when the f0un-
dation will be complete; fourth, by annual. or
other contributions than those heretofore mem
toned, 10 such sums as the contributors may be
able or willing to give for the establishment OF
free bed fund: the principal to be safely in
vested 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 regu
larIy admitted, shall occupy said beds. In case
of vacancies, where no such nomination is
made, these beds may be filled in the same
manner as other free beds, according to the
rules of the Hospital.
Any individual in good health, on payment
of $780, shall be entitled to the free use OF a
bed for the term of one year from the date OF
said payment.
No free patient shall be continued after the
term of three months withOuta special vote OF
the Directors for that purpose.