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Inspections and inquiries.
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194.—(1) The visiting Commissioners and visitors shall, at every visit to a hospital and licensed house which they are by this Act required to make, and any one or more of the Commissioners or visitors may at any other visit do all or any of the following things:
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(a) Inspect any or every part of the building where lunatics are received, and every building communicating therewith or detached therefrom, but not separated by ground belonging to any other person, and every part of the ground and appurtenances held, used, or occupied therewith:
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(b) See every patient and inquire whether any patient is under restraint, and why:
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(c) Inspect the order and certificates or certificate for every patient received since the last visit:
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(d) Consider the observations made in the visitors book:
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(e) Enter in the visitors book a minute of the condition of the house, of the patients therein, and the number of patients under restraint, with the reasons thereof:
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(f) Inquire—
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When divine service is performed, and to what number of patients, and its effect;
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What occupations and amusements are provided for the patients, and the results thereof;
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How the patients are classified;
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As to the condition of the pauper patients when first admitted;
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As to the diet of the pauper patients;
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As to the moneys paid to the manager on account of any lunatic under his care;
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As to such other matters as may in their opinion require investigation.
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(2) The result of the foregoing inspections and inquiries, with such observations as may be thought proper, shall be entered in the visitors book.
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(3) Each visiting Commissioner or visitor may at any visit enter in the patients book such observations as he thinks fit as to the state of mind or body of any patient, and any irregularity which exists in any order or certificates, and also whether the suggestions (if any) made at any previous visit have been attended to, and any observations which may be thought proper.
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