1428 LUNATICS AND INSANE. [ART. 59

committed, and shall be further reported to the lunacy commission,
with a statement of the mental condition of said person at the end of
each three months of said patient's residence in the institution to
which he or she has requested admission, and when discharged there-
from a copy of this section shall be read or exhibited to every person
requesting admission to any institution, in accordance with its pro-
visions.

1904, art. 59, sec. 38. 1888, art. 59, sec. 38. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 39.

38. No institution for the custody, confinement or treatment of the
insane, whether public, corporate or private, shall be authorized to hold
in confinement or custody any number of. insane persons exceeding five
for compensation, unless there shall be a physician in regular attend-
ance upon such institution or house.

1910, ch. 715, sec. 38 A (p. 190).

39. The lunacy commission shall divide the State of Maryland into
such number of hospital districts which, in its discretion, the commis-
sion may deem advisable for the proper care and custody of the insane.
Whenever the lunacy commission shall deem it necessary to more con-
veniently care for the insane in the various hospitals, it may change the
limits of such hospital districts. The commission shall notify the
county commissioners of each county of the limits of the various
districts.

1910, ch. 715, sec. 38 B (p. 190).

40. The lunacy commission, whenever it shall determine that any
patient cared for at public expense and confined in any private or cor-
porate institution or asylum, or in any almshouse, who is violent or
whose case is acute, and said commission shall be of the opinion, after
a thorough investigation, that said patient can be better cared for in a
state hospital with better hopes of recovery, it may remove said patient
to the proper state hospital at the expense of the county wherein the
patient was found at that time. And whenever said commission shall
find anyone in a state hospital whose condition shall have become
chronic or who is likely to do as well in a county asylum as in a state
hospital, it may order the county to which the maintenance of said
patient is chargeable to remove him or her to some county asylum which
shall have complied with the rules of said commission relative to the
keeping of insane patients, but in no case shall a patient in a state hos-
pital be thus transferred, except upon the written consent of his or her
immediate relatives. It shall be unlawful to convey any woman patient
to any institution, asylum, hospital, home or retreat for the insane, or
to transfer any woman patient from or to any such place, except such
woman patient be accompanied by some relative, friend or nurse of the
same sex. This shall not apply to any woman patient accompanied by
her father, husband or adult brother or son.