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Restraint.

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QUESTION II.--(MANAGEMENT).

RESTRAINT.

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Seclusion under lock and key.

Mechanical restraint.

(a) The number of persons subject to..............................................

(6) The number of times resorted to

(c) The total number of hours restraint has been employed

in all cases combined

(d) The greatest duration of, in any single instance

11 Mules: 1 Female. 14 Males; 1 Female.

129 hours. hours.

11 Mules; 1 Female. 35 Males; 2 Females.

124 hours. 22 hours.

A physical examination of each patient is made by a medical practitioner immediately on admission.

Questions,

lu 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, cases of roughness or unkindness by attendants to patients have been brought to the notice of the proper authority, and what was the result in each case. Give a short account of all serious casualties sustained by patients.

IV. What was the number of cases of injury to patients (1.) By themselves?

(II.) By other Patients?

(III.) By Attendants ?

Questions.

State the extent of

(1) The niring courts

Answers.

Medical Officer. Strait Jacket.

Nit.

Nil. Nil.

Nil.

OCCUPATION.

Answers.

ACRES.

R.

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Belonging to the Asylum.

(II.) and other grounds

Are the patients, as a rule, giveu 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 wenns taken to amuse the patients or to induce them to amuse themselves ? Detail them. In any special Recreation Room provided ?

How many religious services were held in 1923 ? 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 conll it contain ?

Yes.

Confiued to Airing Courts.

They are supplied with books aud games,

None.

Giving the daily average number of patients who were employed in 1924.

Specifying the character of the employment,

Distinguishing the sexes.

Agriculture and gardening.

Traile.

Household work, drawing

water, &c.

Male,

Female,

6 None.

None.

None.

None. 5

I. What quantity of water is available for each pationt every day ?

What is the source of the water supply ? What is the quality of the water?

11. Detail the arrangements as to bathis and In- vatorios.

III. What is tho system of sewerage; and what the condition of the privios ?

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Practically unlimited constant supply from publia works.

Rain water from the publia reservoirs, Good.

A hatbroom and lavatory is attached to each land- ing, one for European females, one for European males, one for Asiatic females and one for Asiatio malos,

Water-closets of the wash-out type provided with waste-preventing cisterns are used,

*** Reclushati means “the enforced (solution of a patiunt by day between the hours of 7 a.m, and 7 p.m. by the closing by any mean whatsoever of the door of the room in which the patient is ". The term "soclusion" does not apply is patients who are locked op in their rooms at night, as all patients sleeping in single ronnus are locked up.

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