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Provision for residence and visits of medical attendants.
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228.—(1) In every house licensed for one hundred patients or more, there shall be resident as the manager and medical officer thereof a medical practitioner.
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(2) Every house licensed for less than one hundred and more than fifty patients (in case the house is not kept by or has not a resident medical practitioner) shall be visited daily by a medical practitioner.
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(3) Every house licensed for less than fifty patients (in case the house is not kept by or has not a resident medical practitioner) shall be visited twice a week by a medical practitioner.
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(4) The visitors of any licensed house may direct that such house, and the Commissioners may direct that any licensed house shall be visited by a medical practitioner at any other time or times, not being oftener than once a day.
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(5) When a house is licensed to receive less than eleven lunatics, any two of the Commissioners or any two of the visitors of such house may, if they think fit, by any writing under their hands, permit the house to be visited by a medical practitioner at such intervals more distant than twice a week as the Commissioners or visitors appoint, but not at a greater interval than once in every two weeks.
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