making false return. Enumerators' duties. Who shall be deemed occupier of particular houses. They shall fill up schedules. Penalties for Census. herein required, or who shall make, sign, or deliver, or cause 8 The enumerators shall visit every house in their 9 The principal officer in charge of every prison and police station, and the superintendent of every hospital and asylum, and the manager or keeper of every college or school, the superintendent or person in chief authority in any convent or monastery, and the incumbent or priest or other person in charge of every vihara, pansala, or dewala, and the secretary of every club, and the manager of every hotel or boarding house or factory, and the keeper of every resthouse, and the master or keeper or trustee or person in charge of every public or charitable or religious institution, shall be deemed to be the occupier thereof, and shall fill up the schedules to be delivered to them, with all particulars required in such schedules as to all persons being in such prisons, police stations, hospitals, asylums, colleges, schools, convents or monasteries, viharas, pansalas, dewalas, clubs, hotels, boarding houses, factories, resthouses, public, charitable, or religious institutions, at the time appointed for the taking of the census, and as to all other particulars whatsoever required in such schedules, and shall sign and deliver the schedules so filled up to the enumerator when required so to do; and every such occupier who shall refuse or neglect without lawful excuse, the proof of which shall lie upon such occupier, to fill up the said schedules to the best of his or her knowledge and belief, and to sign and deliver the same as herein required, or who shall make, sign, or deliver any false, incorrect, or inaccurate schedule, or shall make any false, incorrect, or inaccurate statement or return as to any of the matters required in the said schedules, or who shall 1 Census. refuse or neglect without lawful excuse, the proof of which shall lie upon such occupier, to obey any rule made under the authority of this Ordinance, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty rupees. 10 It shall be the duty of every commissioner to make or cause to be made a list of all the estates in extent of twenty acres or more in his district, upon which there are ten or more resident coolies or labourers, and to cause to be delivered to the superintendent or person in charge being resident on such estate the schedules prepared as aforesaid to be filled up by each superintendent or person in charge, with the particulars required in such schedules. 11 Every such superintendent or person in charge shall sign and deliver to the person from whom he shall receive such schedules a receipt to be provided for that purpose; and shall fill up the said schedules to the best of his knowledge and belief as to all persons being on the estate under his superintendence or charge at the time appointed for the taking of the census: and shall within forty-eight hours from the time appointed for the taking of the census transmit such schedules to the kachcheri of the district or to the nearest post office addressed to the commissioner, together with a certificate signed by him that the said schedules have been truly and faithfully filled up by him, and that to the best of his knowledge and belief the same are correct. 12 Every superintendent or person in charge of any estate refusing or neglecting to sign and deliver the receipt referred to in the last preceding clause, or refusing or neglecting to fill up the schedules, or to transmit the same within forty-eight hours from the time appointed for the taking of the census to the kachcheri of the district or to the nearest post office addressed as aforesaid, or refusing or neglecting to sign or transmit the certificate required by the last preceding clause, or making any false, inaccurate, or incorrect statement in any schedule, or making a false statement in the certificate, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred rupees. 13 The officer appointed to superintend the taking of any census shall obtain, by such ways and means as shall appear to him best adapted for the purpose, the returns required by this Ordinance with respect to all persons who during the time appointed for taking any census were travelling or on shipboard, or for any other reason were not abiding in any house of which account is to be taken by the enumerators and other persons as aforesaid, and shall include such returns in the abstract to be made by him as hereinafter provided. 14 The officers appointed by the Governor to receive schedules and the commissioners to whose address returns are to be forwarded under the provisions of this Ordinance shall, upon the receipt of such schedules or returns respectively, forthwith forward the same to the officer appointed to superintend the taking of the census. Commissioner to make list of estates of twenty acres or more. Schedules to be delivered to superintendent. Superintendents. &c., to give receipts for schedules. Superintendents shall fill up schedules. And shall transmit same to kachcheri or post office, with certificate. Penalties on superintendents for neglecting or refusing to sign or fill up or transmit schedules or certificates, or making false statements, &c. Persons on board ship to be enumerated. Returns to be forwarded to officer superintending census: who shall forward abstract thereof to Governor for publication. Offences may be prosecuted in the police court. No prosecution to be instituted without the leave in writing of the Attorney. General. Medical Wants of Planting Districts. 15 The officer appointed to superintend the taking of any census shall cause an abstract to be made of the said returns and shall certify and forward the same to His Excellency the Governor within such time as may be appointed by His Excellency the Governor in Council for the purpose, and the same shall be printed and published for general information. 16 All offences under this Ordinance may be prosecuted, tried, and determined in the police court of the district within which the offence was committed, and such police court shall have power to inflict the punishments prescribed by this Ordinance, anything in any other Ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding. 17 No prosecution shall be instituted under this Ordinance except under the authority in writing of the AttorneyGeneral. 24th November, 1880. Preamble. Short title. Interpretation. No. 17 of 1880. An Ordinance to provide for the Medical Wants of Immigrant WE (As amended by No. 18 of 1881 and No. 9 of 1882.) HEREAS it is expedient to make better provision than at present exists for the medical wants of immigrant labourers in certain planting districts: Be it enacted by the Governor of Ceylon, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: 1 This Ordinance may be cited as "The Medical Wants Ordinance, 1880," and shall come into operation upon and after such day, subsequent to the thirtieth day of June, 1881, as may be appointed by the Governor in Council by Proclamation in the Government Gazette, for the purpose. 2 In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires * (1) The expression "district" shall include an entire district appointed under this Ordinance. (2) The expression "estate" shall include every estate, in districts appointed as aforesaid, in which immigrant labourers are employed, having ten acres of land actually cultivated in coffee, tea, cacao, cinchona, or any of those products. (3) The expression "superintendent" shall mean any person in the immediate charge of any estate. Brought into operation on 1st January, 1883, by section 3 of Ordinance No. 9 of 1882. Medical Wants of Planting Districts. (4) The expression "labourer" shail include every labourer, whether male or female, and the children of such labourers, and every kankani. 3 The Government shall cause provision to be made for the medical care of labourers employed on estates. 4,5 Repealed by No. 18 of 1881, itself repealed by No. 9 of 1882. 6 The Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, may, for the purposes of this Ordinance, by Proclamation in the Gazette, group together.estates into districts, and may in the same and in the like manner from time to time amend the grouping of any district or districts, or abolish any district, or create a new district or new districts. 7 For every district it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint a medical officer, who shall hold office at the pleasure of the Governor, and shall have the medical charge of the district for which he shall be appointed, and shall be under the direction of the Principal Civil Medical Officer, and shall be liable to be removed from one district to another as the Governor may from time to time deem expedient. 8 The Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, shall appoint a salary for each district medical officer, not exceeding in any case four thousand rupees a year, with an increase of five hundred rupees a year after five years' service, and a further increase of five hundred rupees a year after ten years' service, and the past services of such of the present district medical officers who may be appointed shall count towards increment of salary. The Governor, with the like advice, may assign to each medical officer such an allowance as may be necessary to cover his travelling expenses. 9 For every district for which the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, shall deem it expedient, it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint one or more medical assistants, who shall reside at the hospital of the district or such other place as may be appointed, and shall receive a salary on first appointment not exceeding one thousand rupees, which may be increased to a salary not exceeding one thousand five hundred rupees. Government to undertake medical care of labourers. Estates to be grouped into districts. Medical officer to be appointed to each district. Governor in Council to fix salaries. Medical assistants. District 10 For every district there shall be appointed a district hospital, to which may be attached one or more dispensaries. hospitals. 11 The Governor may appoint the existing Government civil hospitals to be hospitals for any district. 12 The Governor may appoint any district hospital or dispensary established under the authority of the Ordinance No. 14 of 1872* as a district hospital or dispensary under this Ordinance. Provided always that whenever any such hospitals shall be appointed a district hospital or dispensary Government civil hospitals may be used. Existing district hospitals may be used. [§ 11, 9 of 1882] C *39-00 Patients to be sent to hospital on order of district medical officer. Patients may be Medical Wants of Planting Districts. under this Ordinance, the same shall thereupon vest in and become the property of the Crown for the purposes of this Ordinance. 13 The superintendent of every estate shall, upon a written requisition from the medical officer in charge of the district, send to the hospital of the district any labourer requiring hospital treatment, unless he shall refuse to go. 14 The superintendent of any estate may send to the sent to hospital by hospital of the district any labourer appearing to him to require medical treatment. superintendents. Subsistence money to be paid by estate. Duty of district medical officer to visit sick labourers. Payment for special visits. Duties 15 For every labourer sent to hospital under either of the two preceding clauses the estate from which he is sent shall be liable for the payment of the sum of thirty cents a day for every day such labourer is in hospital not exceeding thirty days. Such payment to be made to the kachcheri to the credit of the Medical Aid Fund. 16, 17 Repealed by No. 9 of 1882. 18 It shall also be the duty, as far as may be practicable, of each district medical officer, upon being required so to do by the superintendent of any estate in his district, to visit any sick labourer on such estate. 19 For every such last mentioned visit to an estate the estate shall be liable for the payment into the kachcheri of a fee of two rupees and fifty cents, which fee shall be carried to the credit of the Medical Aid Fund. 20 The following duties are hereby imposed on every superintendent of an estate : (a) To maintain the lines on the estate in fair sanitary condition; (b) To inform himself of all cases of sickness on the estate, and to take such steps as he may deem best for the immediate relief of the sick; (c) To send labourers to hospital as required by the 13th clause ; (d) To send for the district medical officer in any case of serious illness or accident; (e) To inform the district medical officer within fortyeight hours of every birth or death upon the estate; (ƒ) To keep a register of immigrant labourers employed on the estate, and of all immigrant labourers arriving or departing therefrom, and of all births and deaths upon the estate, in such form as may be prescribed by the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council; (g) To supply every female labourer employed upon the estate, and giving birth thereon to a child, with sufficient food and lodging for fourteen days after the birth of such child, and to take care that the female labourer be not required to work on the estate for one month, unless the district medical officer shall report sooner that she is fit to work. |