> https://developers.google.com/drive/web/handle-errors
>

This is exactly my point, 404 is for handling errors, someone not being 
in a hospital-register is not an error. To check if someone is, and he 
isn't, that is not necessarily an error.
It may even be a good thing, that someone never has been ill in a 
specific hospital.
The only thing that a computer, without value judgment can say, is that 
the call iss successful (HTTP-status 200), and the answer is "No, he is 
not in the register". That is information.

To call an non-existing service, that is an error, and should return 
404. That is what Restlet also has implemented.

Bert

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