RULES FOR ADMISSIONS AND DISCHARGES, ETC.

Applications for admission of patients shall be made to the Resident Physician at the Hospital, on each day of the week, Sunday excepted, between 9 and 11 A.M.

Whenever able, the patient shall apply in person. When not able to appear in person, applications may be made by a friend, .and the patient shall be visited at his residence.

Any Trustee, or either of the Physicians or Surgeons in attendance, may, in case of emergency, send a patient in the first instance to the Hospital by written permit, and the Visiting Committee shall decide, as soon as may be afterwards, whether such patient shall remain.

Persons accidentally wounded, or otherwise disabled or injured, shall be received at all hours.

Permits for admission shall be subject to the approval of the Visiting Committee, and they shall have the power at any time to require the Resident Physician to report to them the names of applicants before admitting them, and may dismiss any patient whom they think improperly admitted, or change the terms of admission.

Patients discharged on the recommendation of the physicians or surgeons shall be provided with a certificate stating their condition at the time of discharge, whether cured, relieved, or not relieved, which certificate shall be signed by the Superintendent and Resident Physician.

Whenever a patient is removed from the Hospital without the consent and approval of the Superintendent and Resident Physician, a written statement to that effect shall be

required from any person assuming the responsibility of the removal.

The body of any person dying at the Hospital shall not be delivered without a written receipt from the parties taking the same.

In case of the decease of any patient, the Resident Physician shall sign a certificate to that effect, and shall furnish the City Registrar with a copy of the same. He shall also state the time and cause of death, the disposition made of the body, whether delivered to friends or buried from the Hospital. In the last case he shall mention the place of interment.

Patients may be admitted by the Trustees to the privileges of the Hospital, at such rates of board as they may from time to time determine; such board being secured by their friends, or by the authorities of the place to which they belong.

In all cases where, in the opinion of the Trustees, the circumstances of the patient will warrant it, the whole or a part of the board shall be paid. If separate apartments or articles not usually furnished at the Hospital are provided, such payment shall be made therefor as the Trustees shall deem reasonable.

HOUSE RULES.

Patients must be in their proper places in the wards during the visit of the physicians and surgeons, and always by 8 P. M., unless specially exempted by the Superintendent.

Those free patients who are able are expected to assist in nursing, and in such other services as may be reasonably required of them.

Patients shall not leave the Hospital grounds without a pass from the Superintendent, nor their respective wards without the consent of the nurse in attendance.

No patient shall purchase, or cause any member of the household to purchase for him, any article of food whatsoever, nor any other article, without the consent of the Superintendent; nor shall any officer or servant of the Hospital receive a gift or fee from a patient.

Profane or obscene language, loud talking, and incivility, are prohibited.

No patient, having acute syphilitic disease, or mania-a-potu, shall be admitted as a charity patient, or at a lower rate than twenty-five dollars a week for the former, and fifteen dollars for the latter.

No person shall be admitted to the Hospital whose case is judged to be incurable, unless there be urgent symptoms, which, in the opinion of the Physician or Surgeon, are capable of being relieved.

Patients may be visited by clergymen of their own selection, and, where there is a wish for the performance of any particular religious rite, it shall be indulged, when practicable.

It is expected that patients will implicitly obey the rules of the Hospital. Complaints, for whatever cause, may be made to the Superintendent or Visiting Committee, and when reasonable shall be by them reported to the Trustees.

All employés must be in their respective places during their hours of duty. The doors and gates of the Hospital will be closed at 10 P.M., at which time all are expected to be quiet, and those not on duty, in their own rooms.

The use of tobacco, wine and intoxicating liquors is prohibited within the Hospital, unless prescribed by a physician.

VISITORS.

No person shall visit any part of the premises, except on business, or at such times as may be fixed for the reception of visitors, without the permission of the Superintendent, or some one of the Trustees.

On Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of each week, from two to three o'clock, P.M., friends may be permitted to visit patients, though no patient shall receive more than one visitor on the same day. In all cases, however, the Trustees or Superintendent may exercise discretionary powers as to excluding or admitting visitors.

All visitors must leave when the bell rings at the expiration of the visiting hour.

No visitor will be permitted to take any meal in the Hospital, or pass the night therein, without permission from the Superintendent or one of the Trustees.

No visitor shall be allowed to give any article of food or drink to a patient, unless by permission of the nurse; and any article sent to the patients shall be left with the Superintendent.