Annual report of the Department of Public Health, Province of Alberta.

  • Alberta. Department of Public Health.
Date:
[1950]
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Credit: Annual report of the Department of Public Health, Province of Alberta. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Legislation Passed During the Year Cemetery Act Amendment Act (Chapter 9). This Act amends The Cemetery Act, being chapter 256 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1942. Section 2 of the Act is amended. The amendment enables per¬ sons owning plots in existing cemeteries to incorporate a company for the purpose of taking over the cemetery without the necessity of first subscribing twenty-five per cent of the capital stock of the proposed company. At present they are unable to do so. This Act came into force on July 1st, 1950. Hospitalization of City Residents Act (Chapter 29). This is a new Act to be known as “The Hospitalization of City Residents Act.” The Act provides that the council of any city may pass bylaws establishing a hospitalization scheme under which ratepayers and non-ratepayers of the city may receive standard ward hospitaliza¬ tion at a cost to the patient of one dollar per day or less for each day the patient is in hospital. In the case of ratepayers the money to operate the scheme may be raised by a mill rate tax. In the case of non-ratepayers the money to operate the scheme may be raised by a tax on the non-ratepayers or by a contract plan for hospitaliz¬ ation. The Act provides that notwithstanding anything contained in any city charter or any other Act any bylaw mentioned above that is passed by the council shall be valid and may be carried into effect without the necessity of any vote of the residents or of the electors entitled to vote on money bylaws. This Act came into force on April 5th, 1950. Hospitals Act Amendment Act (Chapter 30). This Act amends The Hospitals Act, being chapter 184 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1942. Section 2 is amended by the addition of definitions of two new terms, namely, “ratepayer” and “standard ward hospitalization.” A new section 2a is added enabling the Minister to classify approved hospitals into groups according to the standard of services available in the hospital. Several new sections are added immediately after section 3. The new section 3a enables the Minister to pay a hospitalization grant. This grant is payable to the board of any municipal hos¬ pital district that hospitalizes its ratepayers in a hospital operated by the board and to the board of any municipal hospital district or to the local authority of any municipality that has made arrange¬ ments for the hospitalization of its ratepayers by means of an agreement with an approved hospital. Such an agreement is subject to the approval of the Minister and it must provide for the hospital¬ ization of ratepayers at a direct cost to the patient of one dollar or less per day for standard ward hospitalization and it must provide for a voluntary contract plan for hospitalization whereby its non¬ ratepayers may obtain standard ward hospitalization at a direct cost to the patient of one dollar or less per day. Where an agreement is entered into the hospitalization and services provided under the