L.S. 45.01(R) Regolamenti dwar il-Lebbrużi Imħassrin bl-Att XXVI tal- 2024

[ S.L.45.01 LEPERS 1 SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 45.01 LEPERS REGULATIONS * 27th June, 1939 GOVERNMENT NOTICE 285 of 1939, as amended by Government Notice 174 of 1949 and Act LVIII of 1974. 1. The title of these Regulations is Lepers Regulations. Title. 2. There shall be a medical officer in charge of each Leper Hospital hereinafter referred to as the "hospital". Medical officer. Amended by: G.N. 174 of 1949. 3. Each hospital shall consist of two divisions, male and female. No communication shall be allowed between the patients of either division, or with persons outside the hospital, except as is permitted by these Regulations. Two divisions. 4. † There shall be an established diet for the patients which may be altered or added to by the medical officer in charge of the Hospital when the condition of any individual patient so requires. Such alterations or additions shall be noted in the diet book of the institution against the name of the patient concerned. Established diet. 5. Patients detained in the hospital may have food provided for them by the relatives and friends, but no articles of food or drink shall be introduced if, in the opinion of the medical officer in charge of the hospital, such articles are objectionable on grounds of health or discipline. Provision of food by relatives. 6. Patients may use their own clothing, undergarments and bed linen, provided that they have a quantity which, in the opinion of the medical officer in charge of the hospital, is sufficient to ensure proper cleanliness. Otherwise all articles of clothing and bedding and all undergarments shall be supplied by the hospital. Clothing, undergarments and bed linen. 7. The washing of all articles used in the hospital shall be done in the hospital laundry. No article used by the patients shall be taken out of the hospital. Laundry. 8. All letters from patients shall be delivered to the medical officer in charge of the hospital for disinfection before they are despatched to their destination. Letters. 9. Patients may be visited by their relatives and friends on such days and at such hours as may be fixed the Chief Government Medical Officer, and under such conditions as the medical officer in charge of the hospital shall consider necessary. Visiting days and hours. 10. Patients who are dangerously ill may be seen by their relatives or friends on any day and at any hours during the daytime, on application to the medical officer in charge of the hospital. Dangerously ill patients. *These Regulations have been repealed by Act XXVI of 2024. †The original regulation 3 has been omitted, under the Statute Law Revision Act, 1980, in view of the fact that it referred to provisions contained in article 6 of the Ordinance, which article has been repealed. 2 [ S.L.45.01 LEPERS Permission to patients to leave the hospital for temporary periods. 11. The Chief Government Medical Officer may grant permission to patients to leave the hospital for temporary periods under such conditions as he may consider necessary to impose in each case. Leprosy Board. 12. The Leprosy Board shall visit the hospital every twelve months to examine patients and attend to other professional matters with the medical officer in charge. Discharging patients from hospital. Amended by: G.N. 174 of 1949. 13. The medical officer in charge of the hospital shall inform the Leprosy Board of the case of any patient whose condition has, in his opinion, improved to an extent that might justify his conditional discharge from the hospital. The Board shall examine the patient and submit a report to the Chief Government Medical Officer on the state of the disease in the patient and shall make such recommendations as it may think fit relative to the patient’s conditional discharge from the hospital. Discharged patients. Amended by: G.N. 174 of 1949. 14. All patients discharged shall conform to the following conditions: (

1. a)they shall inform the Chief Government Medical Officer through the medical officer in charge of the hospital of the address at which they intend to reside on discharge and of any subsequent change of address; (
2. b)they shall present themselves to the Leprosy Board for examination once every six months, or more often if so required by the Board; (
3. c)they shall not engage in any trade, business, occupation or work of the following nature (
4. i)any trade or business connected with the supply, preparation or distribution of food, drink, drugs, medicine or tobacco in any form; (
5. ii)laundry work; (iii) tailoring; (
6. iv)domestic service; (
7. v)nursing; (
8. vi)midwifery; (vii) hairdressing; (viii) itinerant hawking; Treatment out of hospital. 15. Patients who are not removed to, but are to be treated out of the hospital shall present themselves for treatment at such place and time as may be ordered by the Chief Government Medical Officer. All such patients shall present themselves to the Leprosy Board for examination once every six months, or more often if so required by the Board. Nursing mothers shall not be allowed to nurse their babies. Patient who has been conditionally discharged. Amended by: G.N. 174 of 1949. LVIII.1974.68 16. In the event of any person who has been conditionally discharged from the hospital developing contagious manifestations of leprosy, the Board, through the Chief Government Medical Officer, shall inform the President of Malta who may revoke the order for the conditional discharge of any such person and order his removal to the hospital. In the event of any patient undergoing LEPERS [ S.L.45.01 3 treatment out of the hospital developing contagious manifestations of leprosy, the medial officer in charge of the hospital or any other medical practitioner who becomes cognisant of the fact shall at once inform the Leprosy Board, and the Board, after examination of the patient, shall through the Chief Government Medical Officer inform the President of Malta, who may order the removal of the patient to the hospital. 17. Patients who, in the opinion of the medical officer in charge, are able to contribute some assistance to the service of the hospital or to perform agricultural, needle or other work, may be so employed in return for extra comforts or a small monthly gratuity to be fixed by the Chief Government Medical Officer. Patients able to contribute assistance. 18. The members of a household where a case of leprosy has occurred may be subjected from time to time to medical examination. Members of household. 19. Any patient who contravenes these Regulations or the rules of the hospital; or who disobeys the orders of the medical officer in charge of the hospital; or who creates any disturbance; or who uses obscene or profane language; or who insults, or reviles, by word or deed, an officer or servant of the hospital or another patient; or who commits any nuisance in any part of the hospital; or who damages or destroys government property or articles belonging to other patients, shall be liable to any or all of the following punishments as may be decided by the Chief Government Medical Officer: Contravention of these Regulations. Amended by: G.N. 174 of 1949. (
9. a)suspensions of leave of absence; (
10. b)stoppage of the allowance of money for tobacco, or stoppage of wine, dessert or any other article of food; (
11. c)deprivation of a drive in the country. The period of any of the above punishments shall no,t in any case, exceed one month. More serious offences shall be dealt with according to law.