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Inspectors to visit asylums and inquire into the management thereof.
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24. One of the said inspectors shall once or oftener in each year, on such day or days and at such hours of the day and for such length of time as they shall think fit, visit every asylum for lunatics or house for the reception of the same, and every gaol, union workhouse, or house of industry, in which there shall be or alleged to be any lunatic, and shall inquire whether the provisions of the law have been carried out in the management of such establishments respectively, and also as to the regularity of the admissions and discharges of patients therein and therefrom, and whether divine service is performed therein, and whether any system of coercion is in practice therein, and the result thereof, and as to the classification or non-classification of patients therein, and the number of attendants on each class, and as to the occupations and amusement of the patients and the effects thereof, and as to the condition as well mental as bodily of the patients when first received, and also as to the dietary of the patients, and shall also make such other inquiries as to the lunatics as aforesaid, as to such inspectors shall seem meet.
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