COMPILED CODE - Iowa Legislature - State of Iowa

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§§ 2365-2365-a2. PSYCHOPATHIC HOSPITAL. Tit. X, Ch. 8.
17 expended in the manner provided in sections twelve hundred sixty-six
18 and twelve hundred sixty-seven of the compiled code. The appropria-
19 tion of five thousand dollars provided for the epidemiology laboratory
20 in the annual appropriation of the thirty-sixth general assembly to the
21 state university is hereby made available for the use of the laboratory
22 and the work provided for in this chapter. All laboratory work of
23 the state board of health shall be done at or through the laboratory
24 herein provided.
[S. S., '15, § 2575-a9 ; 37 G. A., ch. 285 ; 39 G. A., ch. 293, § 1.]
CHAPTER 8.
PSYCHOPATHIC HOSPITAL.
SECTION 2365. Examination at hospital—nurse assigned—transfer.
1 When the patient arrives at said hospital it shall be the duty of
2 the director, or of some physician acting for him, to examine the said
3 patient and determine whether or not, in his judgment, he is a fit sub-
4 ject for such observation, treatment and hospital care. If, upon said
5 examination, he decides that such patient should be admitted to the
6 said hospital, the medical director shall provide him with a proper bed
7 in said hospital ; and the physician or surgeon who shall have charge of
8 said patient shall proceed with such observation, medical or surgical
9 treatment and hospital care as, in his judgment, are proper and necio
essary.
11 A proper and competent nurse shall also be assigned to look after
12 and care for such patient during such observation, treatment and care
13 as aforesaid.
[38 G. A., ch. 235, § 11 ; 39 G. A., ch. 245, § 1.]
SEC. 2365-al. Application for commitment to insane hospital.
1 If, upon such examination or at any time thereafter, the medical
2 director, or, in his absence, the assistant medical director, shall be of
3 the opinion that such patient, or any patient in said state psychopathic
4 hospital, is a fit subject for care, observation and treatment in a state
5 hospital for the insane, he shall file an application, substantially as
6 provided in section twenty hundred fifty-eight of the compiled code,
7 with the board of commissioners of insanity hereinafter created.
[39 G. A., ch. 245, § 1.]
SEC. 2365-a2. Special board of commissioners of insanity.
1 The medical director, the assistant medical director and one other
2 member of the medical staff of the state psychopathic hospital shall
3 constitute a board of commissioners of insanity; and said board is
4 hereby vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of
5 the commissioners of insanity as now constituted by law, except as
6 herein provided, with full power to receive and act upon all applica-
7 tions filed hereunder, as fully as the commissioners of insanity are
8 empowered and authorized by law to do. The procedure of the board