6. Employees shall be prompt at meals. Those coming late will be expected to explain the reason. No cooking, heating or keeping of tea, coffee, or food shall be allowed on the premises other than in places provided for them and by persons employed for such duties. 7. All employees will, when practicable, be allowed two half days off duty each month and when convenient a part of each Sunday, subject to the needs of the institution and the discretion of the superintendent. 8. Discharged employees are not entitled to the freedom of the premises and must stop in the waiting-room, like other visitors, while those discharged for cause are not admitted except as patients or on business to the superintendent. 9. Employees shall attend to matters out of repair in their departments, and report all articles broken or injured to the head of their department. Nails shall not be driven into the building or furniture without permission. Scratching of matches on walls is forbidden. 10. The house will be closed at 10:30 p. m. Employees desiring late leave must get permission from the matron or superintendent. No employee shall go in or out any window, except those used as doors, unless engaged in working about the same. 11. Employees shall not keep in their possession nor have on the premises, spirituous liquors, and the intoxication of any employee shall be the cause of instant dismissal. 12. Loitering around the kitchen during working hours, or at any time, by those not employed there is prohibited. Kitchen employees are not allowed to linger around the kitchen when off duty. 13. All persons connected with the hospital are expected to be civil and polite at all times. Sleeping rooms, wardrobes, dressers, closets, cupboards, etc., shall be subject to inspection at any time. Rooms shall be in order and beds made by 10 a. m. and shall at all times be kept clean, orderly and free from vermin. 14. No one connected with the hospital shall remove the property, however small, from one room or ward to another without the permission of the superintendent. 15. Employees are expected by precept and example to assist in keeping the hospital quiet and orderly and free from dust, dirt and foul air. Boisterous or profane language and whistling or singing cannot be permitted. 16. Cleanliness and neatness in appearance, habits and work are imperative. All employees are expected to be punctual in reporting for duty. Visitors to employees are not allowed during working hours. In exceptional cases permission may be obtained from the superintendent. 17. All articles broken or destroyed will be charged to the person breaking them, at cost price.