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end of each three months of said patient's residence in the institution to
which he or she has requested admission, and when discharged therefrom,
a copy of this Section shall be read or exhibited to every person request-
ing admission to any institution in accordance with its provisions.

An. Code, sec. 38. 1904, sec. 38. 1888, sec. 38. 1886, ch. 487, sec. 39.

39. 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 attendance upon
such institution or house.

An. Code, sec. 39. 1910, ch. 715, sec. 38A (p. 190).

40. The Board of Mental Hygiene shall divide the State of Mary-
land into such number of hospital districts which, in its discretion, the
Board may deem advisable for the proper care and custody of the insane.
Whenever the Board of Mental Hygiene shall deem it necessary to more
conveniently care for the insane in the various hospitals, it may change the
limits of such hospital districts. The Board shall notify the county com-
missioners of each county of the limits of the various districts.

An". Code, sec. 40. 1910, ch. 715, sec. 38B (p. 190). 1920, ch. 735, sec. 40.

41. The Board of Mental Hygiene, whenever it shall determine that
any patient cared for at public expense and confined in any private or
corporate institution or asylum, or in any almshouse, is violent or that
his case is acute, and said Board 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, 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 Board 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
Board relative to the keeping of insane patients, but in no case shall a
patient in a State hospital be thus transferred, except upon the written
consent of his or her immediate relatives. And whenever, in the opinion
of said Board, any patient cared for at public expense and confined in
any private or corporate institution or asylum or in any almshouse or any
person confined in a State hospital is in such a condition as to be dangerous,
the said Board may remove said patient to such other State hospital as
the said Board may select. 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.