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Visits by Commissioners.
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187.—(1) Two or more Commissioners, of whom one shall be a medical practitioner and one a barrister, shall once at least in each year visit every asylum and shall inquire—
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(a) Whether the provisions of the law have been carried out;
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(i) As to the construction of the building;
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(ii) As to visitation;
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(iii) As to management;
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(iv) As to the regularity of the admission and discharge of patients;
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(b) Whether divine service is performed;
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(c) Whether any system of coercion is practised, and its result;
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(d) As to the classification of patients and the number of attendants on each class;
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(e) As to the occupations and amusements of the patients, and their effects;
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(f) As to the bodily and mental condition of the pauper patients when first admitted;
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(g) As to the dietary of pauper patients;
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(h) As to such other matters as to the visiting Commissioners seem fit.
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(2) Any one or more of the Commissioners may at any time visit any asylum with the like powers as are by this section given to two or more Commissioners.
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