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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

71. The following Time Table will be observed,
    unless otherwise specially ordered :-
    8 a.m. Patients' breakfast.
    8.30 and 9 a.m.-Attendants' breakfast.
    9 a.m.-Male Department.-Working parties go
    out. Female Department.-Laundry patients
    shall be fetched The Needle-
    work will also begin.
    10.30 a.m.-The wards are all to be cleaned,
    beds made, and everything put in good order.
    The Attendants in the wards are expected to
    be dressed in their uniform by this hour.
    Lunch for working patients.
    12.15 p.m.-The Attendants are to prepare for
    fetching the dinners from the kitchen when the
    bell rings; working patients shall return to
    their wards; the Attendants shall see that
    they wash and are tidy for dinner.
    12.30 p.m.-Patients' dinner.
    1 and 1.30 p.m.-Attendants' dinner.
    1.30 p.m.-Working patients resume work. The
    hour of return at evening for those employed
    out of doors depending on the season of the
    year, shall be regulated by the Keeper or
    Medical Officer; otherwise it shall be at
    5 p.m.
    3.30 p.m.-Beer or tea for working patients.
    5 p.m. (or as otherwise ordered by the Keeper)
    -Working patients return to their wards.
    5.30 p.m.-Supper.
    6 and 6.30 p.m. - Attendants' tea.
    6 to 10 p.m.-Patients go to bed. All shutters
    are to be locked, clothing removed from the
    rooms, doors locked, lights extinguished, &c.
    9 p.m.-Night Attendants to enter on their
    duty.
    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 Attend-
ant.
75. The Keeper shall regulate the rotation accord-
ing 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 indorsement to that effect under his hand
on the letter. In such case he shall lay the letter so
indorsed 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,