Every physician or surgeon practicing within the city and every superintendent, proprietor or other person in charge of any public or private house, or any other person within the city, shall, whenever any person becomes a patient of such physician or surgeon, or an inmate or patient of, or has been brought into any hospital, sanitarium or drugstore for treatment, or has been treated by any person, for any gunshot or knife wound or other injury received from attack with a murderous weapon, keep a record in which shall be entered the name and address of any such person treated as hereinbefore mentioned, and of any person who shall accompany or take any sick or injured person to such hospital for medical or surgical treatment, which record shall be produced whenever required for inspection by the police department or any member thereof.
Such record shall contain the name of the sick or injured person, with his or her address if such name or address is known or reasonably ascertainable, together with the name and address of each person attending or accompanying the sick or injured person at the time the sick or injured person is first treated by such physician, surgeon, superintendent, proprietor or other person, or brought to such hospital, sanitarium, drugstore or house, and such physician, surgeon, superintendent, proprietor or other person shall report immediately to the chief of police or other person in charge of the police department the name and address of such injured person, the nature and location of injury and when and where received.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to any case wherein the person wounded or injured has been brought to the office of such physician or surgeon or to a hospital or sanitarium by any member of the police department. (Prior code § 26.01.058)