Evening star., 1909-04-18

therein. but any such license may be al
tered or amended at any time by the
Commissioners upon cause shown. No
person shall receive in any private hos
pital, except in case of emergency, any
patient in excess of the numbeD specified
in the permit. or of a kind not so speci-
fed.
&c. Every owner and every superin-
tendent of a private hospital or asylum
for human beings shall keep on the
premises A permanent bound record,
showing the name, usual residence (giv
ing street and number), sex. color, age
and social status whether married, sin
gle or divorceO of each patient. and
showing also the date of admission and
date of discharge. Said entries shall be
made serially in order of occurrence. and
births and stillbirths occurring in the in
stitution shall be serially recorded there
in. but no entry need be made to show the
identity of the parents of any illegitimate
child.
Sanitary Exactions.
a. No person shall establish or main
tain any private hospital or asylum,
either for human beings or for domestic
animals, in any building, or in any hos
pital or asylum, or use for the reception
of patients or of employees. any part of
any building. unless said building or part
of building Is properly lighted, ventilated
drained, heated and screened, provided
with proper supply of hot and cold
water at all times and equipped with such
fire escapes and means of fire protection
as are required by law.
IS. No person shall use any building
or part of a building as a private hos
pital or asylum for human beings. ex-
cept for children under five years of age.
unless until it has been provided with
one or more rooms properly barred for
the protection of insane drunken or de-
lirious inmates. or with facilities for
promptly barring one or more such rooms
-. No person, being the owner or su-
perintendent. or an employe. of any pri-
vate hospital or asylum. shall permit any
deliriouS or maniacal patient, or any pa.
tient who may reasonably be expected
soon to become delirious or maniacal. to
remain In any room that Is not properly
barred and closed SO as to prevent the
escape Of such patient, or accident or in
jury to him, unless said patient is in the
actual physical presence of an attendant
capable of controlling and restraining
him.
10. No person maintaining private
hospital shall, without written permis-
sion of the health officer, receive or un-
necessarily keep therein for care treat
ment. in the case Of hospitals for human
beings any person known to be suffering
from smallpox, scarlet fever diphtheria,
measles, whooping cough. chickenpox,
mumps or Asiatic cholera, plague. yellow
fever. leprosy or glanders or, in the case
Of hospitals for domestic animals, any
animal suffering from rabies. glanders or
farcy. contagious lymphangitis, influenza
or pink eye. strangles. dog distemper,
contagious stable pneumonia, anthrax,
mango or tuberculosis.
III. No person licensed to maintain a
private hospital or asylum for human
beings shall advertise. either directly or
indirectly, that he will adopt or pro-
cure the adoption of any child or chill
dren. or hold out to any person facilities
for dispos,ng of offspring.
Provision for Physicians.
'12. When the licensee of any private
hospital or asylum for human beings Is
nor a physician lawfully authorized to
practice medicine In the District Of Co.
lumbia, or, in the case of any hospital
or asylum for domestic animals, is not
a veterinary surgeon lawfully authorized
to practice veterinary medicine in said
District, said lcensee shall appoint one
or more physicians, or one or more vet
erinary surgeons, as the case may be-
with his or their consent, to act as an
attending staff medical board, and to
be responsible for the treatment of such
patients in said hospital or asylum as
are not under the professional care OF
some other lawfully practicing physician
or veterinary surgeon; said licensee shall
post the names of the physicians or vet
Urinary surgeons so appointed In the
office or in some other corresponding part
of said hospital or asylum. No person
shall establish maintain any private
hospital or asylum unless, or so long as,
said institution is not provided with an
attending staff or medical board as afore
said.
"13. That whenever it is made to ap-
pear to the satisfaction Of the Commits
sioners that any private hospital or asy
lum. either for human beings or for do
mestic animals. Is a menace 10 the lives,
limbs. health or morals OF the inmates
thereof or is a nuisance to the neigh
borhood. or Is conducted contrary to the
or of law. the Commissioners will give
notice to the licensee. requiring him with
in a period specified In said notice to
show cause why his license. should not
be revoked: and unless such cause be
shown to their satisfaction said Com
missioners will revoke said license.
IA. That for the purpose of these
regulations any building premises shall
be regarded as hospital or asylum in
which within period of six consecutive
months, more than two persons not by
blood marriage related to the Occu-
pant. more than two animals not be-
longing to the occupant are received to
be cared for or treated on account of
disease, injury. deformity. infirmity, in
fancy or pregnancy; provided that cases
of emergency shall not be counted in
determining the status of any building or
premises under this section.
Overrules Demurrer at Little Rock.
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