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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

121. The linen shall be returned to the wards on
     Friday at 3 p.m., and the Attendants' linen shall be
     returned on Saturday forenoon.
122. The Matron shall see that due care is used in
     the process of washing, ironing, and drying. She
     shall also control the expenditure of soap and other
     necessaries for Laundry use.
123. The employment of the patients selected for
     the Laundry shall be regulated by the Matron.
124. No patient shall be unduly taxed, or forced
     to work if apparently indisposed, or if not as well as
     usual.

XVIII.—ATTENDANTS' LEAVE.

125. Attendants shall be all allowed, regularly and
     alike in fair rotation, the same amount of leave.
126. Should the necessities of the Asylum require
     any Attendant's services during any part of his
     regular leave, the leave so lost shall be be made up
     to him in the month following if possible, and at all
     events before the end of the three months next
     following.
127. A Table of Attendants' Leave, signed by the
     Keeper, shall be posted up by him in some con-
     spicuous place in the Attendants' room, on the first
     day of each month, and taken down and placed on
     the file at the last evening of the month.
128. All alterations ordered by the Keeper in an
     Attendant's ordinary leave shall be noted by him on
     such table.
129. A note of any extra leave granted by the
     Keeper shall at once be made on the leave-table; but
     no extra leave shall be granted except under some
     emergency, or for very special reasons.
130. The leave-table shall be submitted to the
     Inspector at each official visit.

XIX.—ENGAGEMENT OF ATTENDANTS.

131. Attendants shall be engaged by the year,
     subject to at least one month's notice to leave on
     either side. Notice to be given in writing to or by
     the Keeper.
132. The Keeper may at any time suspend an
     Attendant if dissatisfied with him on reasonable
     grounds. He shall immediately report the suspen-
     sion to the Superintendent.
133. The Keeper may, on reasonable grounds,
     dismiss any Attendant, subject, however, to the
     approval of the Superintendent.

XX.—ATTENDANTS' UNIFORM.

134. Uniform shall always be worn by Attendants
     while on duty, but not while on leave.
135. Upon leaving the service, the uniform, or
     other property belonging to the Government, then
     in possession of the Attendant, shall be delivered up
     to the Keeper.

XXI.—THE GARDENER.

136. The Attendant in charge of the out-door work
     shall have special charge of the vegetable garden,
     orchard, plantations, walks, paths, and grounds about
     the Asylum.

137. The Keeper shall allot to him the patients
     who are to be employed on the grounds, and he shall
     be responsible for their care and safe custody.

138. He shall instruct the patients in their work,
     and encourage them to persevere in it, remembering
     that the great object of the garden is the benefit
     which the patients derive from working on it, how-
     ever inefficient they may be, compared with skilled
     labourers.

139. He shall at no time remove a patient from
     any of the wards without first informing the Attend-
     ant in charge of that ward.

140. At the time of his returning the patients to
     their respective wards, he shall inform the Attendant
     thereof.

141. He shall submit to the Keeper, for entry in
     the garden want-book, whatever seeds, implements,
     &c., he may from time to time require for the gar-
     den, &c.

142. He shall be responsible for the care and good
     order of the tools used by himself and the patients,
     which are daily to be returned to the tool-house.

143. He shall provide before 9 a.m. whatever
     supply of vegetables may be required for the day,
     and deliver the same as may be directed by the
     Keeper.

144. He shall furnish the Keeper with a weekly
     list of the garden produce supplied to the house, and
     its market value, and of all sales of garden stuff to
     persons off the premises. No garden stuff shall be
     sold without the Keeper's knowledge or consent, nor
     shall any be given away.

145. He shall not absent himself in work hours
     from the grounds of the Asylum, without previously
     obtaining leave from the Keeper.

146. He is at all times liable to be called upon to
     perform such duties in connection with the Asylum
     as the Keeper may direct.

XXII.—EXTRACT FROM "LUNATICS ACT, 1868."

Section 191.—Any Keeper, Gaoler, Officer, Nurse,
Attendant, Servant, or other person having the care
of any lunatic, or employed in the Asylum, Hospital,
Gaol, or Licensed House, who shall strike, wound,
ill-treat, or wilfully neglect any lunatic or patient
confined or detained therein, shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanour, and shall be subject to be indicted for
every such offence, or to forfeit for every such offence,
on a summary conviction thereof before two Justices,
any sum not exceeding fifty pounds nor less than
two pounds, or be imprisoned for any period not ex-
ceeding six months.

Section 192.—"If any Keeper, Officer, Nurse,
Attendant, Servant, or other person having the care
of any lunatic, or employed in any Asylum, Hospital,
or Licensed House, shall, through wilful neglect or
connivance, permit any patient in any case to quit
or escape from such Asylum, Hospital, or Licensed
House, or be at large without such order as in the
Act mentioned (save in the case of temporary
absence authorized under the provisions aforesaid),
or shall secrete, or abet or connive at the escape of
any such person, he shall for every such offence
forfeit and pay any sum not more than twenty
pounds nor less than two pounds."

XXIII.—EXTRACT FROM "THE PUBLIC HEALTH
Аст, 1872."

Section 94.—"The Masters or other persons in
charge of Reformatories and Industrial Schools,
Lunatic Asylums, and other places where the poor
or sick are received, and Keepers or Gaolers of
Prisons, shall, at the expense of their respective
establishments or institutions, cause all inmates
thereof to be vaccinated, immediately upon their
entrance thereto, unless they produce sufficient
evidence of previous successful vaccination within
five years, if such vaccination shall not in the opinion
of a duly qualified medical man be attended with
danger to such person: Provided that the Governor
is hereby empowered by Proclamation in the Gazette
to declare from time to time an age after which vac-
cination or revaccination under this clause shall not
be compulsory: Provided also that the obligation to
be vaccinated or revaccinated under this clause shall
not apply to Lunatic Asylums or Hospitals in any
case in which the Medical Officer of the Institution
shall consider it inexpedient.