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SPACE AND ACCOMMODATION TABLE.

The number

The gross The gross

Description of rooms.

of such

roonis.

enbie

space superficial of all such aren of all

rooms, such rooms.

Height of

all such

Amount of

superficial

A vorage teinperature.

space allowed

rooms.

per patient. Winter. Summer.

The

amount of window space.

Dormitories

Noue.

KALA

Day rooms and

corridors used

Six.

14,459

3,456

18 feet 180 sq. ft.

Not recordel.

641

as day rooms

Single rooms

Thirty.

40,240

3,228

U

100

532

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Questions.

Answers.

What is the source of the water supply; the quality of the water; and the amount of water available for all purposes expressed in gallous, per patient, per day?

What is the number of :-

(I.) lavatories?

(II.) baths?

(III.) latrines?

What is the system of sewerage?

Rain water from the public reservoirs; good ;- practically unlimited.

Four. The proportion of the total number of basins

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

bathed 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, aud he reports, in writing, to the Super-

intendent of the institution as to the existence of

any bruises, eruptions, deformities or other peculiarities

be observes when patients are stripped.

None. The total number of sents to the total number

of patients is 1 to 5.

Water-closets of the wash-out type provided with

waste-preventing cisterns are used.

Restraint.

QUESTION IL—(MANAGEMENT).

(a) The number of persons subject to........................................ (b) The number of times resorted to

RESTRAINT.

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

in all cases combined........

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

Seclusion under lock and key.

Mechanical restraint,

4 Males. 9 Females.

17 Males. 21 Females,

3 Males. 3 Males.

Females. 9 Females.

79 hours.

74 hours.

12 hours.

10 hours.

A physical examination of each patient is made by a medical practitioner immediately on admission. *Reclusion" means "the enforced 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 "seclusion does not apply to patients who are locked up in their rooms at night, as all patients sleeping in single rootus are locked up.

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