same to the patient on leaving the Hospital, or in ease of death, to 
 any person whom the Committee of Management shall authorise 
 to receive the same. Provided that if the clothes of any patient 
 be in such a state as to render it necessary that they should be 
 burned, it shall be done, if sanctioned by the attending Medical 
 Officer. 
 
 8. He shall keep in a book for the purpose, an account of the 
 servants' time and wages, and pay the same when ordered by the 
 Committee of Management. 
 
 9. It shall be his duty to take care that every part of the prem- 
 ises, without the Hospital, be kept in proper order. 
 
 10. He shaU keep the keys of the outer doors and gates, and 
 lock them at ten o'clock, P. M., and open them at 6, A. M., from 
 the first of May to the first of November, and lock them at 8, 
 P. M., and open them at 7, A. M., during the rest of the year ; 
 unless ordered otherwise by the Committee of Management, or in 
 case of emergency, for the service of the patients. 
 
 11. He shall report, to the Committee of Management, any 
 misconduct or irregularity that may come under his notice. 
 
 12. He shall write the minutes, &c., of the Committee of Man- 
 agement when required. 
 
 13. He shall hang up in the Hall of the Hospital the names 
 of the weekly visiting Governors and shall on the Saturday pre- 
 ceding their week of attendance, give them notice thereof by 
 letter. 
 
 14. He shall lay his book of accounts on the table in the Com- 
 mittee Room at all meetings of the Governors. 
 
 15. As soon as the body of a patient, dying in the Hospital, is 
 laid out in the dead house, it shall be the duty of the Steward to 
 see that the body be safely kept there, until delivered for inter- 
 ment or to such authorized party as the Law may direct, and 
 he shall be responsible for the faithful execution of his duty. 
 
 16. He shall give reasonable security to the Governors for his 
 fidelity. 
 
 17. He shall not absent himself from the Hospital, except on 
 duty, without the knowledge of the House Surgeon. 
 
 18. When any patient shall wish it, the Steward shall send im- 
 mediately, in writing, for such Clergyman as the patient may desire. 
 
Of «A« Mair<m» 
 
 1. The Matron shall visit the wards of the Hospital every 
 morning at eight, every afternoon at one, and every evening at 
 eight o'clock, and oftener if necessary ; at these visits she shall see 
 that the wards are properly attended by the nurses, and that all 
 the patients are in their respective wards, and report to the House- 
 Surgeon the names of such patients as are absent without leave 
 from their respective wards. 
 
 2. She shall oversee the conduct of the patients and serx'ants 
 and take care that the wards, apartments, beds, clothes, linen, &o., 
 are kept clean and in good order. 
 
 3. She shall have charge of all the furniture, beds, bedding, and 
 dresses belonging to the Hospital, as far as regards her department. 
 
 4. She shall report any misconduct of the patients or servants 
 or any other irregularity occurring in the house, to the House 
 Surgeon, and to the Committee of Management. 
 
 5. She shall prevent anything being taken into the wards except 
 that which is ordered. 
 
 She shall not admit any person or persons to see any patient 
 or patients, except at the hours appointed by the Medical Board 
 of the Hospital. 
 
 7. She shall superintend the preparing of the diet of the patients, 
 and be particular that the same diet, in the quantity, and at the 
 time prescribed, be given and nothing else ; she shall also keep a 
 diet list, with the number of patients on such diet. 
 
 8. She shall not absent herself from the Hospital without the 
 knowledge of the House Surgeon. 
 
 Oj the Nurses. 
 
 1. When a patient is admitted into the Hospital, it shall be 
 the duty of the nurse to whose ward such patient may be ordered 
 to see that he or she receives a thorough bath, unless a special 
 order to the contrary be given in writing, by the admitting Medical 
 Officer. She shall give him or her an Hospital shirt and night 
 cap, and shall deliver without delay, his or her clothes, after an 
 inventory of them has been taken, to the person ordered by the 
 Steward to receive them. 
 
2. The Nurse shall, at the next visit, state to the attending 
 Physician or Surgeon such circumstance or circumstances as may 
 tend to throw ligat on the case, and shall bo ready to do the same 
 if required, at eacl. succeeding visit. 
 
 3. In the event of iny patient being seized with violent or 
 alarming symptons she shall give immediate notice thereof to the 
 House Surgeon or Apothec.iry. 
 
 4. The Nurses when ordered by the Matron, shall change the 
 patients' linen, bed linen, and bedding. 
 
 5. She shall receive no medicines sent from the Apothecary's 
 shops to the wards unless labelled and directed. 
 
 6. When a death occurs, the Nurse of the ward shal limmediately 
 give information to the Steward. 
 
 7. They shall be in their respective wards at GJ o'clock, A. M., 
 each morning, and have them clean, and in proper order by 9 A.M. 
 
 8. The Nursc^ shall be diligent in complying with the orders 
 of the Medical Officers, Surgeon and Matron, and they shall 
 behave with tenderness to the patients. 
 
 9. They shall pay particular attention to the patients, and as 
 often as necessary supply them with the drink prescribed, and 
 assist them, and assist them when they are unable to assist them- 
 selves, and when they are able shall place the vessel or vessels con- 
 taining their drink, commodiously within their reach, and take 
 care that they never remain empty. 
 
 10. They shall see that the patients take their medicines as 
 prescribed. 
 
 11. They shall never, on any account, allow anything to be 
 brought into the wards, or given to the patients except that which 
 is ordered. 
 
 12. They shall give immediate notice to the attending Physician 
 or Surgeon, or in his absence to the House Surgeon, or to the 
 Matron, when any patient or patients shall have violated any of 
 the By-laws of the Hospital. 
 
 13. They shall always keep themselves clean and decently 
 clothed. 
 
 14. They shall not leave their wards during the day unless 
 when necessarily called away, or when requested to do so by the 
 Medical Officer or Matron. 
 
n 
 
 • 1 5. Any neglect or omission of these ralea will render the Nurse 
 who taiay do so, liable to dismissal. ' 
 
 0/ the Patients. ' 
 
 1. No patient shall smoke in the house or the galleries, make 
 use of obscene ot profane kuguage, nor leave the ward in which 
 he or she shall have been placed, without permission from the 
 attending Physician ov House Surgeon, or unless required by him 
 to give assistance. 
 
 2. The patients sliall not play at cards or dice ; or any other game. 
 
 3. They shall conduct themselves with due respect to the 
 Matron, Nurses and servants of the Hospital. 
 
 4. No male patient, under any pretence whatsoever, shall enter 
 the apartments or wards for females, unless required by the Physi- 
 cian to give assistance, nor shall a female patient enter the apart- 
 ments or wards for males. 
 
 5. No patients shall allow their friends to bring them, nor shall 
 they use, anything whatsoever, except the diet prescribed, without 
 permission from the attending Physician or Surgeon. 
 
 6. Every patient shall retire to bed at nine P. M. from the first 
 of May to the first of November ; at eight P. M. from the first of 
 November to the first May ; and those that are able shall rise at 
 seven A. M. during summer, and eight A. M. during winter. 
 
 7. Such patients as shall be considered able, shall assist the 
 nurses and other servants of the Hospital, in nursing the patients, 
 making the beds, cleaning the wards, and doing such other work 
 •as the attending Physician or Surgeon may direct. Any patient 
 
 or patients not conforming to the By-laws of the Corporation, shall 
 incur the penalty of expulsion. 
 
 8. When any patient is dischai^cd from the Hospital for irre- 
 gular conduct, the Steward shall give notice thereof by letter, in 
 the form and manner following, to the person who shall have 
 recommended such patient : 
 
 MoNTBEAL General Ho?''""al, 
 day of 18 
 
 Sir,— I am directed to inform you that A. B., recommended 
 by you, has this day been discharged from the Hospital, for irre- 
 gular conduct, by Dr. , attending. 
 
 '■ Steward. 
 
9. Any patients having a complaint to make slxall lodge it K(^th 
 the Matron, who if neoept^-y shall refer it for adjustment to the 
 attending Medical Office/ or House Surgeon, and the Committee 
 of Management. 
 
 10. The body of any patient dying in the Hospital, shall not 
 be removed for interment until twenty-four hours in summer, and 
 thirty-six in winter, shall have elapsed after the death of the racient, 
 without a written permission from either the attending Medical 
 Officer or House Surgeon. 
 
 0/ t?ie Out'Door Patientt, 
 
 1. They shall attend in the place at the hour appointed by the 
 Medical Board for givi'ag Advicv. ^nd Medicines to the poor gra- 
 tis ; and if any of theTn neglect to attend twice in succession with- 
 out leave from the attending Physician or Surgeon, he or she 
 shall not be entitled to any further advice or medicine. 
 
 2. The names of the Out-Patients shall be entered in a book 
 kept for the purpose, with their age, complaint, religious persua- 
 sion, the time of admission, and the termination of the disease s 
 far as it can be ascertained. 
 
 3. Medicines and Advice will be given to the poor, at every 
 visit of the attending Physician or Surgeon. / U Out-Patients 
 shall provide their own phials. 
 
 4. No Out-Patient shall loiter about the Hospital gate, or pre- 
 mises adjoining ; they shall come directly to the place appointed 
 to receive them, and as soon as they have received the advice and 
 medicines, which may be considered necessary for them, they 
 shall immediately leave the Hospital. 
 
 6. Any Out-Patient or Patients who shall violate any of the 
 rules or regulations of the Hospital shall incur the p^alty of 
 dismissal. 
 
 Admi8non» 
 
 Visitors will be admitted to see the patients from the first of 
 May to the first of November from 2 P. M. to i). P. M., and 
 from first November to first May, from 2 P. M. to 4 P. M. On 
 Sundays from 3 to 4 P. M. during the year.