Health Authorities to Control Medical Institutions The Greater Shanghai Bureau of Public Health recently issued an order for the registration of hospitals within the Municipality and, as 4 step towards assuming control of euch institutions, the following regulations governing them have been drawn up:—Hospitals may only be established after they have given the followin information to the Bureau of Public Health—The names, ages, address: ete, of those managing such me stitutions, the regulations of hos-Ditals, plans for hospital buildings, the number of rooms and beds, fire-prevention appliances, ete.
The authorities must be informes in the event of any changes being made in respect of the information called for in the preceding para-
The. names, ages, addresses and qualifications of medical practitioners'and their assistants and the nurses employed in hospitals shall Be reported to the authorities and their certificates of qualification must be presented for examination; Each hospital shall employ at one qualified physician and one (A Local qualified pharmacist and a physician shall remain on duty even after consultation hours; The authorities of the hospitals may be ordered to rej or refrain from using buildings which are found to be in a state of disrepair and which are dangerous or insanitary; The authorities must be informa: in the event of hospitals being 1 moved or closed; Hospitals shall not adver re garding their methods of treatment or make untrue statements relative the experience of their physicians; No persons with contagious and persons suffering from differen'
diseases shall not be confined to the same room; Speci apparatus shall be provided for the treatment of persons suffering from contagious disease:
Apparatus and other motel used on persons with contagi disease shall be thoroughly disivfected after use; Materials used on persons suffer. ing from contagious disease shall not be left exposed they have not been thoroughly infected; The preceding regulation shall apply also to dirty water or exerement of persons suffering from contagious disease; Rooms evacuated by persons suffering from contagious disease shall be thoroughly disinfected; and Hospital authorities shall, with: 48 hours, notify the public health authorities of eases of contagious disease admitted to hospitals and shall report immediately on cases of cholera or bubonic plague.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.