GENERAL MANAGEMENT

Rule 325

Any Female Employee in the Asylum service shall, in the event of her marriage, notify the fact to the Medical Superintendent, and her services will be dispensed with, unless retained for the convenience of the Institution.

GENERAL MANAGEMENT

Rule 329

All Attendants, Nurses, Laundry Employees, Kitchen and other Servants, Labourers, and Artizans are required to leave and enter by the Lodge Gates, and to deposit their keys with the Gate Porter before leaving the Estate.

THE FOREMAN OF WORKS

Rule 255

He shall examine all locks in the building once every four months, and shall furnish a written report of the condition that he has found them in, and shall certify that he has thoroughly examined every lock.

THE INSPECTOR.

Rule 183.

He shall ascertain that the Male Attendants are in bed by 10:50 p.m., or by the time directed by the Medical Superintendent, and up at 6 a.m.

THE VISITING COMMITTEE

Rule 1

The general supervision and control of the Asylum is vested in the Visiting Committee for the time being, who shall meet within one month after their election, and shall then appoint a Chairman, Vice-Chairman, and a Clerk to the Visiting Committee.

THE MATRON.

Rule 158.

She shall supply the Medical Superintendent once weekly, or as required, with a list of Patients suitable to attend the dances or the entertainments, or the Church Services, and with list, when the occasion occurs, of such Patients as are eligible for walks beyond the Estate.

General Rules 1909

Inside the front cover of the rule book is this note:

This printed Manual is the property of the Institution, and must be carefully preserved, and is not be taken away from the Institution.

At the back of this rule book is the following:

I hereby approve the foregoing General Rules for the government of the City of Cardiff Mental Hospital.

W. S. CHURCHILL,

One of His Majesty’s principal Secretaries of State.

WHITEHALL,

21st March, 1910.