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on any day other than a regular visiting day. In
all cases of sickness, relations or connections will be
admitted on any day on an order from the Medical
Officer.

X.—RECREATION.
Holidays, Picnics, Band, Weekly Ball, or Concerts.
94. The band, the weekly ball, or concert, and the
out-door amusements of patients, shall be under the
control and direction of the Keeper, subject to the
approval of the Provincial Government.
95. The band shall be composed of such male
attendants and patients as have a knowledge of
music. Every artisan, attendant, and servant, is
required, if able, to take part in the band for the
benefit of the patients.
96. The Attendant best acquainted with music
shall conduct and practise the band at such hours as
the Keeper may direct. He shall also attend the
church singing practice.
97. Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Good Fri-
day, Easter Monday, Whit Monday, the Queen's
Birthday, and the Anniversary of the Province shall
be kept as holidays. All outside work shall be
suspended on these days.
98. The Medical Officer or Keeper may, with the
approval of the Provincial Government previously
obtained, engage any travelling performers for the
amusement of the patients. He may, with approval
as aforesaid, arrange picnics for both sexes, and he
may send occasionally small selected parties of
patients to spend the day at any places of amuse-
ment or recreation.
99. All expenditure under any of the above five
rules shall be made subject to instructions from the
Provincial Government, and a careful account shall
be kept of the receipt and expenditure of any fund
established for the purpose of recreation.

XI.—CHAPEL ATTENDANCE AND MUSIC.
100. On Sunday every effort shall be made to
induce as many patients as possible to attend Divine
Service; and such arrangements shall be made for
the practice of music and the playing of the organ as
may be necessary to insure the proper conduct of
the service.

XII.—THE LIBRARY.
Periodicals and Newspapers.
101. The Library shall be under the charge of the
Medical Officer or Keeper, and for the use solely of
patients, officers, and attendants of the Asylum.
102. A catalogue of the Library books and other
publications shall be made, and shall be regularly
and closely kept up.
103. The Library works shall be regularly circulated
through the different wards.
104. No person shall be allowed more than two
works at the same time; at the end of the time
allowed, each work must be returned to the Library,
but may be taken out again if not previously applied
for.
105. The Attendant in charge shall be held answer-
able for any book circulating in a ward until it shall
have been entered as returned.
106. The periodicals and newspapers shall be cir-
culated in the wards under the direction of the
Keeper.

XIII.—THE DISPENSARY.
107. The Dispensary shall be entirely under the
Medical Officer's directions.
108. The Dispensary shall be cleaned by one or
more of the Attendants, and no patient is to be
allowed inside it under any pretext.

XIV.—THE CARE OF THE DEAD.
109. The care of the dead, from the first removal
from the ward, to the burial, including the charge of
the dead-house and the arrangements for the post-
mortems, shall be intrusted as a special duty to such
Attendant as the Medical Officer and Keeper may
appoint for that purpose.
110. It shall be this Attendant's duty to observe
the utmost decency and respect for the remains, and
to enforce attention to this regulation upon any
Attendant who may be employed with or under him.
111. On the death of a patient, the Clerk shall
immediately give notice to the nearest relation or
next of kin of the deceased (if their address be known).
The body shall be delivered to them if requested;
but if it be not removed on the third day after death,
or earlier if the Medical Officer shall so order, it
shall be buried under the direction of the Medical
Officer or Keeper.

XV.—THE KITCHEN.
112. The Cook shall be responsible to the Keeper
for the good order and cleanliness of the kitchen,
scullery, and all other compartments pertaining
thereto; also for the punctual preparation and the
proper cooking of the food at the appointed hours.
113. He shall report immediately to the Keeper
any deviation from the fixed quantity of, or any in-
feriority of quality in, the provisions served out to
him.
114. Patients employed in the kitchen shall, while
so employed, be under the care and safe custody of
the Cook.
115. He shall at all hours prepare such medical
comforts as may be ordered by the Medical Officer
or Keeper.
116. The following hours shall be observed :—
6 a.m.—Work begins.
8 a.m.—Patients' breakfast.
8.30 and 9 a.m.—Attendants' breakfast.
12.30 p.m.—Patients' dinner.
1 and 1.30 p.m.—Attendants' dinner.
5.30 p.m.—Patients' tea.
6 and 6.30 p.m.—Attendants' tea.
The bell shall be rung at 8 a.m. for breakfast,
1.30 p.m. for dinner, and 5.30 for tea.

XVI.—RATION SUPPLIES.
117. The Keeper will assure himself by personal
inspection, before a receipt is given to the Contractor
or other person supplying the same, that all stores
supplied to the Institution are of good quality, and,
when supplied under contract, are in accordance
with the conditions of the contract. He will imme-
diately make an entry of any remissness on the part
of the Contractor, or of any complaint of the charac-
ter of the provisions supplied, and bring the same
under the notice of the Inspector and of the Pro-
vincial Government.

XVII.—THE LAUNDRY.
118. The Matron shall have entire control over and
pay strict attention to the care of the Laundry, and
shall take care that the bedding, clothing, and linen
of the patients are duly returned and kept in a good
state of repair.
119. She shall be assisted by the Laundry Attend-
ants and patients, and shall be responsible to the
Keeper for the due order and regularity of the
Laundry in every part. The Laundry work com-
mences at 9 a.m. All linen must be delivered by
that hour.
120. The foul linen will be delivered every morning
at the foul-linen room at 9 a.m. The Attendants'
linen shall be delivered on Monday at 9 a.m., and no
Attendant shall be allowed more than nine pieces at
the washing; each pair of socks to count as two.