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QUESTION I-Continued.
SPACE AND ACCOMMODATION TABLE.
The number
Description of rooms.
of such
rooms,
*The
gross | The gross cubic space superficial of all such aren of all
rooms.
Jauch rooms.
Height of
ull euch
TOOMIS.
Amount of superficial space allowed per patient.
Average temperature,
The amount of
window
Winter. Sommer.
Брисе.
Dormitories
None.
Day rooms and
corridors used
Six.
44,459
3,456
18 feet
180 sq. ft.
Not recordel.
641
as day rooms
Single rooms
Thirty.
40,240
3,228
14
100
532
*
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Questions,
What is the source of the water supply: the quality of the water; and the amount of water available for all purposes expressed in gallons, per patient, per day?
What is the number of :—
(I.) lavatories?
(II) baths?
Answers.
Rain water from the public reservoirs; good : pretically unlimited.
Four. The proportion of the total number of busins in them all to the total number of patients is I to 3.
Four. The proportion of the total number of baths to the total number of patients is 1 to 5; the patients are Luthed twice a week and oftener if they desire to do so; an unlimited supply of water is allowed for each bath:
fresh water is given to every patient, and the supply of hot water is adequate. A responsible official or attendant is always present during the bathing operations, aml he reports, in writing, to the Super- intendent of the institution as to the existence of any bruises, oruptions, deformities or other peculiarities be observes when patients are stripped.
None. The total number of seats to the total number of patients is 1 to 5.
Water-closets of the wash-out type provided with waste-preventing cisterns are used.
(III.) latrines ?
What is the system of sewerage?
QUESTION 11.—(MANAGEMENT).
RESTRAINT.
Restraint.
Seclusion* under lock and key.
Mechanical restraint.
7 Mules. 3 Females. 37 Males. 7 Females.
351 hours, 12 hours.
3 Males. 4 Females. 3 Males, 9 Females.
119 hours. 22 hours.
(a) The number of persons subject 10..........................
(b) 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
A physical examination of each patient is made by a medical practitioner immediately on admission.
* "Seclusion" means “the enforced isolation of a patient by day between the hours of 7 am, and 7 p.m. by the closing by any The term "seclusion” does not apply to patients who are means whatsoever of the door of the room in which the patient is". locked up in their rooms at night, as all patients sleeping in single rooms are locked up.
Questions.
In reference to the above table, slute :--
I. By whose authority patients are restrained. II. What methods of mechanical restraint are in use. III. Casunities.-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
(I.) By themselves?
patients
(II.) By other Patients?
(III.) By Attendants?
Medical Officer.
Answers.
Shait Jacket & Shackles.
Nit
Nil.
Nil.
Nil.
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