The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-07-10
WHEN "JACK" IS SICK
THE QUEENS HOSPITAL Is TO
TREAT HIM.
Unless He Has An Incurabie Disease
When He Must Go To the Home For
Incurables at $3.50 a Day.

The Secretary of the Treasury has
approved the following regulations for
the care of seamen entitled to relief
from the Marine Hospital Service, at
Honolulu and other places
The following contracts for the care
Of seamen entitled to relief from this
Service, for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1903, are published for the informa-
ton of accounting officers of the Treas
ury Department, disbursing agents,
commissioned medical officers and act
ing assistant surgeons of the Marine-
Hospital Service, and customs officers.
This circular is to be regarded as Off
cial notification of the acceptance of
the proposals made by the parties de-
signated, and must be cited giving it's
number and date, on all bills for the
treatment and maintenance of seamen,
end for the burial of deceased hospital
patients, as the authority for any eX-
penditure incurred under it's prOVis-
IONS. Charges will De allowed for the
day of admission of a hospital patient
but not for the day of discharge or
oeath The right is reserved by the
Secretary OF the Treasury to terminate
any contract wherever the interests Of
The Service require it. All relief must
be furnished in accordance with the
Eital Service; and, in consequence of
the large expenditure for relief, and
Cf the limited sources OF income, it has
| become necessary to give notice that,
| as provided in the regulations, no al
lowance Will be made for expenditures
/ incurred at any port not named in this
circular
Upon admission to a contract hos
pital of a patient with a disease or in
jury which, in the opinion of the med
zeal officer the acting assistant sur
geon, or physician in charge of the
case will require more than twenty
days treatment in hospital the officer
/ issuing the permit will at once request
authority from the Bureau to transfer
such patient to the nearest marine hos
pital provided the patients condition
in the opinion of the medical officer
the acting assistant surgeon, or physi-
clan in charge of the case, is such as
to admit of transportation.
| The attention of customs officers
commissioned medical officers, acting
assistant surgeons, or other physicians
IL charge of patients of the Marine.
| Hospital Service at contract stations
| is hereby called to the necessity of dis.
charging patients promptly upon the
termination of the necessary hospita
treatment, and without awaiting the
expiration of the period authorized II
the permit.
The term Contagious diseases,
wherever occurring in this circular, in
cludes only those diseases which. un
der usual municipal regulations, ar,
required to be treated in special hos
pital for contagious diseases.
AT Honolulu the medical attend
ance to be furnished by a medical Off
Ger of the Marine-Hospital Service
patients suffering from tuberculosii
and incurable diseases, excepting lep
rosy TO be furnished quarters, SUD
sistence' nursing, and necessary medi
ciIes by the Honolulu Home for Incur
ables, at $3.50 day: others. excenfin,
contagious cases, by the Queens Hos
pital, at $1.5O a day.