(1) If there is an observation or segregation ward for new admissions, the new arrivals shall be located there until the Medical Officer directs that they shall be placed with other prisoners.
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(2) If any epidemic is prevalent and accommodation for new admission as provided outside the jail, prisoners shall not be admitted within the jail till orders have been given by the Medical Officer, for their admission and such prisoners shall at once be provided with necessary bedding and protection from cold.
(3) Prisoners on first admission to jail shall at the discretion of the Medical Officer, be kept in quarantine for such period as may in his opinion be necessary.
(4) All newly admitted prisoners shall be brought before the Medical Officer usually on the morning following their admission and he shall then make or cause to be made in the admission register and prisoner’s history ticket, a record in respect of each prisoner of his or her age, health on admission with such particulars or previous illness as may be known to him, weight on admission, any marks of wounds on the person and in the case of prisoners sentenced to rigorous imprisonment, the class of labour for which the prisoner is fit with any other observation he may find necessary.