1899 public laws – Ch.1 Sec.60

It shall be lawful for any person or corporation to establish private hospitals, homes or schools for the cure and treatment of insane persons, idiots, and fe2hle minded persons and inebriates; but license to establish said hospitais, homes or schools, must, before the same are opened for patronage, be obtained from the board of public charities, and said hospitals, homes or schools, shall at all times be subject to the visitation of the said board or any member thereof, and each hospital. home or scbkool, shall make to said board a semi-anrua! report on the first days of January and July of each year. In said report shall be stated the number and residence of all patients admitted, the number discharged during the six months preceding, and the officers of ‘the hospital, home or schoo]. And each hospital, home or school, shall file with the said board a copy of its by-laws. rules and regulations, and rates of charges. The books of each hospital, home or schocl, stall at all times be open to the inspection of the said board or any member thereof. The board of public charities is hereby given the authority to supervise and regulate all private hospitals, homes and schools, established hereafter in this state for the treatment of the above classes of people, and the said beard shal! have power to prescribe all such rules and regu’ations as they may deem necessary and shall exercise the power of visitation, and for that purpose may depute any member of their board to visit and supervise any private hospital, home or school hereafter established under this act. The board of public charities may bring an action in the superior court of Wake county to vacate and annul any license granted by said board, hwhen it shall appear to the satisfaction of said board that the managers of any private hospital, home or school, have been guilty of gross neglect, cruelty or immorality. |