Duty to visit hospital.
Duty as to sanitary condition of prison.
Duty to inspect
prison and prisoners.
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(3) The Superintendent shall report to the Medical Officer any case of insanity or apparent insanity among prisoners.
90. The Superintendent shall make daily visits to the hospital and see all prisoners therein. He shall satisfy himself that proper arrangements are made for the safe custody of the sick prisoners, and that discipline is maintained, so far as is consistent with the medical treatment prescribed for them.
91. (1) The Superintendent shall-
(a) pay attention to the ventilation, drainage, and sanitary condition of the prison, and take such measures as may be necessary to maintain them in perfect order;
(b) in the company of the Medical Officer frequently examine
the washing-places, baths and closets.
(2) Every officer shall report as soon as they are brought to his notice, any defects discovered in such washing-places, baths and closets.
92. The Superintendent shall-
(a) exercise a close and constant personal supervision of the
whole prison;
(b) visit and inspect daily every part of the prison where
prisoners are employed or confined;
(c) visit the prison by night at least twice a fortnight;
(d) give special attention to every prisoner who for any
reason is confined to his cell.
Duty as to 93. (1) The Superintendent shall hear daily all reports at reports and such hours as may be most convenient. complaints.
Duty to Assist police.
(2) The Superintendent shall ensure that every prisoner having a complaint to make or a request to prefer to him shall have ample facilities for so doing, and he shall take all the necessary steps to redress all grievances so far as is possible.
94. The Superintendent shall assist the police in the identi fication of prisoners, and shall, for this purpose, give all such information within his knowledge.
95. The Superintendent shall-
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(a) exercise a general supervision over stores;
Duly to check stores and prisoners'
(b) at frequent intervals check items in stores against the property.
numbers or quantities in the store ledger in order to ascertain whether they agree;
(e) from time to time check moneys and property belonging to prisoners and ensure that they are properly kept.
prisoners
98. The Superintendent shail, on the occasion of a prisoner Duty who is committed for trial, being served with a copy of the indict towards ment, with the notice of trial endorsed thereon or annexed thereto, committed ask him if he wishes to see a legal adviser or if he wishes to call for trial. witnesses for his defence, and shall at once inform the police authorities in order that any such witnesses may, if required, be summoned to appear at his trial.
97. The Superintendent shall be responsible for the produc- Duty to tion of all prisoners committed for trial at the sessions of the produce
prisoners Supreme Court acting in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction, at sessions. and he shall take measures as he may deem necessary for their safe custody.
98. The Superintendent shall be responsible for the discharge Respon
sibility for of all prisoners as soon as they are entitled to be released for any
discharge of reason whatsoever.
prisoners.
99. The Superintendent shall whenever a violent prisoner Duly to cannot be restrained by normal means and whose violence is, in report in-
ability to his opinion, due to the prisoner's mental condition, or disease restrain a report the fact to the Medical Officer, and shall act on his instruc- violent
prisoner. tions.
occasion
100. The Superintendent shall attend on every occasion when Duty to corporal punishment is inflicted within the prison. He shall enter attend on in his journal the hour at which the punishment was inflicted, the when number of strokes and any order which he or the Medical Officer corporal
punishment may have given on the occasion.
ia inflicted.
101. The Superintendent shall attend at every execution, and Duty to shail enter in his journal the hour when it occurred.
attend
executions.
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