11 P.M.—All Attendants are expected to go to bed, and every light shall be extinguished excepting those permitted by the Keeper. The Night Attendants will not neglect to report any infraction of this rule.

Special Days and Hours for the Wards.

Sunday, 11 A.M.—Morning prayer; or, 7 P.M.—Evening prayer.

2 to 4 P.M.—Patients to walk into the country (weather permitting).

Monday, 9 A.M.—All dirty linen to be sent to the laundry.

10 A.M. to 12 A.M.—Matron receives and gives out needlework for the wards.

2 to 4 P.M.—Visiting hours for patients’ friends.

Tuesday, 7 to 9 P.M.—Band practice.

Wednesday—Half holiday.

8 to 11 P.M.—Weekly ball or concert, or at such time as the Keeper may direct.

Thursday, 2 to 4 P.M.—Visiting hours for patients’ friends.

Singing class and choir practice.

Saturday—Bathing day with change of linen.

72. Once every fortnight the Attendants shall all be practised at their special duties, as in case of a fire occurring at the Asylum.

V.—DINING REGULATIONS.

73. The Attendants in charge of the wards will be responsible for the order and regularity of the meals. No patient shall be absent from the wards at meal-times, except by order of the Medical Officer or Keeper.

74. The Attendants will take their meals in rotation; but it is expressly ordered that on no occasion shall any ward be left for one moment without an Attendant.

75. The Keeper shall regulate the rotation according to the requirements of the wards, &c.

76. Immediately after each meal the Attendants shall count and carefully lock up all the knives, &c.

VI.—BATHS.

77. Every patient (unless prevented by illness) shall be soaped and bathed at least once every week with warm water at a temperature of 85 deg. to 90 deg. Fahrenheit.

78. Every ward shall be provided with a sufficient number of bath towels. No washing towels or sheets are to be used for bathing.

79. The taps of each bath are to be provided with legibly painted labels, marked Hot, Cold, Waste, and to be protected from the patients touching them.

80. The Attendants in charge shall see that the water is properly mixed, and its temperature tested by the thermometer before use.

81. The cold water must be let in first, to protect the bath from splitting by the hot water. The water is to be changed each time it is used.

82. The patient’s head or hair must be thoroughly washed with soap and water, and the nails cut if necessary.

83. After each bath the patient shall have an entire change of clean under-linen.

84. When a patient by neglecting the calls of nature is dirty, the Attendants in charge may at any time use the bath with tepid water. With this exception, however, no bath, whether cold, hot, shower, or douche, shall, under any circumstances whatever, be used, except by the order of the Medical Officer or the Keeper, and then only in the presence of one or other of them, or of the Head Attendant or the Matron.

VII.—THE WORKROOM AND NEEDLEWORK.

85. The workroom and needlework shall be under the direction and control of the Matron, who shall be responsible to the Keeper that the needlework be properly done.

86. The Matron shall bear in mind that no patient is to be employed at needlework, or other work, to the neglect or injury of her health.

VIII.—PATIENTS’ LETTERS.

87. All letters addressed to patients shall be delivered to them unopened, unless the Medical Officer or Keeper give orders to the contrary.

88. Should a patient be quite incapable of receiving a letter, it is to be opened by the Keeper, and returned to the writer, with an explanation of the circumstances.

89. All letters written by patients and addressed to any responsible Minister of the Crown, Judge of the Supreme Court, Inspector or Official Visitor, shall be at once forwarded by the Keeper unopened. (See Lunatics’ Act, 1866, Clause 62).

90. Every other letter written by a patient shall be forwarded to the person to whom it is addressed, unless the Keeper prohibit the forwarding of such letter by endorsement to that effect, under his hand on the letter. In such case he shall lay the letter so endorsed unopened before the Inspector or Official Visitors who shall next thereafter visit the Asylum.

IX.—RELATIONS AND CONNECTIONS VISITING PATIENTS.

91. Relations and friends of patients may visit the Asylum on Mondays and Thursdays, between the hours of 2 and 4 p.m.

92. Relations and friends of patients shall be allowed to visit them at least once every week, unless the Medical Officer shall consider such visit likely to be injurious or otherwise inexpedient.

93. If a patient be ill, friends who come from a distance, or are otherwise unable to come on a visiting day, shall be admitted to visit on Sundays, or, on the order of the Medical Officer or Keeper, on any day other than a regular visiting day. In all cases of