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Restraint.
(4) The number of persons subject to.
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QUESTION [1.--(MANAGEMENT),
RESTRAINT.
Seclusion under lock and key.
Mechanical restraint.
2 Males: 10 Females.
b) The aumber of times resorical to
(e) The total number of hours restraint has been employed
in all enses combined
(d) The greatest duration of, in any single instance
Not recorded,
2 Males; 13 Females.
170 hours. 24 hours.
A physical examination of each patient is made by a medical practitioner immediately on admission.
Questions,
In reference to the above table, state :-
1. By whose authority patients are restrained. II. What methods of mechanical restraint are in use. III, Casualties.-State particulars of any, and, if any, how many, eases of roughness or unkindness by attendants to patients have been brought to the notice of the proper authority, and what was the result in cach case. Give a short recount of all serious casualties sustained by patients.
IV. What was the number of cases of injury to patients—(L) By themselves ?
(11) By other Patients ? (III.) By Attendants ?
Medical Officer. Strait Jacket. Nil.
Ni.
Answers.
Questions.
State the extent of—
(I.) The airing courts
OCCUPATION.
Answers.
ACRES.
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Belonging to the Asylum.
(11.) and other grounds
Are the patients, as a rule, given daily exercise, their health permitting ?
Are they confined to airing courts, or allowed to walk in other grounds, and sent beyond the Asylum ?
Are any meaus taken to amuse the patients or to inditee them to amuse themselves? Detail them. any special Recreation Room provided?
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How many religious services were held in 1920 ? What particular denominational services are provided, by whom are the services taken. what is the average attendance at the services of each denomination ?
In what building, and how many could it contain ?
Yes.
Confined to Airing Courts.
They are supplied with books and games,
None.
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Giving the daily average number of patients who were employed in 1920,
Specifying the character of the employment,
Distinguishing the sexes.
Agriculture and gardening.
Trade.
Household work, drawing
water, &c.
Male, Fenale,
None, None.
None.
None.
Noue. None,
1. What quantity of water is available for each
patient every day?
What is the source of the water supply? What is the quality of the water?
II. Detail the arrangements us to buils and lu- . vatories.
III. What is the system of sewerage; and what the condition of the privies ?
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Practically unlimited constant supply. from publie works.
Rain water from the public reservoirs. Good.
A bathroom and lavatory is attached to each land- ing, one for European females, one for European males, one for Asiatic females and one for Asiatic males.
Water-closets of the wash-out type provided with wuste-preventing cisterns are used.
Seclusion means "the unforced isolation of a patient by day between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. by the closing by any means whatsoever of the door of the room in which the patient is ". The term "acclusion” does not apply to patients who are locked up in their rooms at night, as all patients sleeping in single roonis are locked up.