Evening star., 1909-04-18
RULES FOR HOSPITALS
Regulations for Private Insti-
tutions Adopted.
PROVISION FOR LICENSES
Consent of Adjoining Property Own
ers Required.
BONDS REQUIRED OF TENANTS
Sanitary acknowledgements In
sane Must Be Guarded-Pro-
lection for Children.

Rules for tha licensing and regulation
of private hospitals and asylums In the
District of Columbia have been adopted
by the District Commissioners. AS soon
as they are put in the proper legal form
they will be promulgated by the District
officials.
These regulations are to be put into eff
feet by the Commissioners under the au-'
thority of an act approved April 20, 1908,
for the regulation of the establishment
and maintenance of private hospitals and
asylums in the District, which declares
that the Commissioners of the District
of Columbia be, and they are hereby. au-
thorized and empowered to promulgate
from time to time such regulations as in
their Judgment public interests require to
govern the establishment and main
tenance of private hospitals and asylums.
whether for human beings or for do
mestic animals, and to regulate the Is
sue, suspension and revocation of Ii
censes aforesaid"
The act provides that for violation of
any of it's provisions or Of any of the
regulations any person responsible there
for may be punished by fine not exceed
ing 300 or imprisonment for not more
than thirty days, or both.
Regulations as Approved.
he do py
Health officer Woodward and approved
by the Commissioners. are as follows:
I'D Every person desiring to maintain
a private hospital or asylum, either for
human beings or domestic animals. shall
file with the Commissioners of the Dis
trict of Columbia his application in writ
ing for a license SO to do, showing, first
the kind and number of cases that it is
desired to treat; second, the number. To-
cation and capacity of the buildings to
be used and the purposes OF each, and
the location and area of the site. and,
third, the name of the owner of the pro-
posed institution (as distinguished from
the owner of the buildings and land).
"(9 No person shall establish or main
tain for the care and treatment of pa
tients any part of any private hospital
or asylum, either for human beings or
domestic animals, unless or until said
person has filed with said Commission
ers the written consent of not less than
two-thirds of the owners and the occu-
pants of all buildings located on lots or
subdivisonal lots any part of which lots
or subdivisional lots is within 100 feet,
measured in a straight line. from such
part of said establishment Provided
that the word occupant as applied to an
apartment house, hotel or boarding house,
shall be held TO mean the superintendent
or manager thereof and not the occupants
of individual apartments or suites; and
provided, further. that this section shall
not apply to any hospital or asylum which
was established prior to and was being
maintain at the time of the passage of
an act entitled: An act to regulate the
esta blishment and maintenance of private
hospitals and asylums In the District of
Columbia, approved April 20. 1905" while
located on the site occupied by il at that
time, nor TO the extension of any such
hospital or asylum on grounds adjacent
to said site.
Building Must Be Suitable.
'3 No license to maintain a private
hospital or asylum will be issued by the
Commissioners until after the health Of
ficer. the Inspector of buildings. the chief
engineer of the fire department and the
Inspector of plumbing have certified that
the premises which ii is proposed to use
for the purpose are in tDeir judgment
suitable therefor.
= No permit will be issued for the es-
tabishment and maintenance of any hos
pital or asylum except on condition that
the licensee file and keep current bond
to the District of Columbia in the penal
sum. in the case of hospital for human
beings. of $1,000. and in the case OF a
hospital for domestic animals, in the
case for the benefit of any and all per-
sons who may be aggrieved by any act or
by any neglect arising out of or in CON
nection with the establishment or mainte-
nance of said hospital asylum. Pro-
yided, That this section shall not apply
when and long the premises occu-
pied by said hospital or ASYLUM are
owned by the owner OF such institution
- Every license to establish and main
tain. or. TO maintain private hospital
whether for human beings or. domestic
animals. will specify the number and
kind Of patients that may be received