Rules and Regulations of the Insane Asylum of California: Prescribed by the Resident Physician, August 1, 1861Stockton State Hospital (Calif.)
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Rules and Regulations of the Insane Asylum of California: Prescribed by the Resident Physician, August 1, 1861
Stockton State Hospital (Calif.)
Psychiatric hospitals -- California
5. The Farmer will be careful to confer often with the Steward in
reference to all matters pertaining to his charge, give timely notice as
to all his wants, and he will be expected to be faithful and industrious
in the use of every means in his power, to render the farm productive
and profitable to the Asylum.
6. He shall make a report, embracing all the business transactions of
the farm, whenever required to do so by the Superintendent or Steward.
VISITORS.
1. Visitors and others will be permitted to visit the Institution on any
day, except Sunday, between the hours of 10 A. M. and 3 P. M.
2. No visitor shall be admitted within the wards occupied by the
patients, without express permission from the Superintendent, or
Assistant Physician. And especial care must be taken that no amount of
visiting is permitted in the wards that might prove injurious to the
patients.
3. Visitors are expressly forbidden to furnish any inmate of the Asylum
with tobacco in any form; or to deliver to, or receive from a patient,
any letter, parcel, or package, without the knowledge and approbation
of the Superintendent, or Assistant Physician.
4. Those having charge of patients are particularly enjoined to abstain
from mentioning to visitors the names of those in their charge, their
peculiarities, or any other circumstances, a knowledge of which might be
painful to persons connected with them.
5. Visitors are respectfully requested not to disturb the flowers and
fruit in the Asylum garden and grounds.
LIBRARY.
1. The Library of the male department shall be under the charge of the
Supervisor. Every volume taken therefrom shall be charged to the
borrower, except for the use of the patients, when it shall be charged
to the Attendant, into whose ward it is taken, who will be responsible
for its being used with ordinary care and returned in proper time.
2. If a volume shall be lost or destroyed, by any patient, the
Attendant, having charge of the patient, will report the fact to the
Supervisor, and, if practicable, exhibit the fragments. If lost or
destroyed, by any other person, it must be replaced.
3. No one will be permitted to take from the library more than one
volume at a time, or to keep a volume more than two weeks, without
permission from the Superintendent or Assistant Physician, except
Bibles, Testaments and Prayer books placed in the hands of the patients
for daily reading.
4. The Supervisor will be responsible for books taken from the library
and not charged.
5. The Library of the female department will be under the charge of the
Matron, who, in its management, will be governed by the above rules,
prescribing the duties and responsibilities of the Supervisor.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
In the preparation of the foregoing Rules and Regulations, the Resident
Physician has made free use of the published rules of other
Institutions, particularly those of the Illinois State Hospital for the
Insane.
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