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or representatives of the Department shall carefully inspect every
part of the institution visited in reference to its cleanliness and
sanitary conditions, the number of patients in seclusion or restraint,
the dietary and treatment of the patients, and any other matters
the Department may consider necessary. The Department shall from
time to time cause to be made an examination of all the records and
methods of administration as relate to patients, the general and
special dietary and treatment of any patients confined therein,
especially where admitted since the preceding visit, giving such as
may desire it suitable opportunity to converse with the representative
or representatives of the Department privately.

19B.

(a)   Department to control.—The Maximum Security Hospital
shall be within the general administrative control, supervision, and
direction of the Department of Mental Hygiene.

(b)  Superintendent—Appointment.—The Commissioner of Mental
Hygiene, upon recommendation of the [advisory board] Secretary
of Health and Mental Hygiene, shall appoint a superintendent of
said institution. Upon every occurrence of a vacancy thereafter in
the position of superintendent, the Commissioner, upon recommen-
dation of the [advisory board] Secretary of Health and Mental
Hygiene, shall appoint the successor.

(c)   Same—qualifications; removal; compensation; duties.—The
superintendent shall be a well-qualified psychiatrist who shall be
familiar with the problems of the mentally ill who require maximum
security. His appointment shall not be subject to the provisions of
the Merit System Law, and he shall be subject to removal by the
Commissioner of Mental Hygiene , with the concurrence of the
Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, for incompetency or mis-
conduct. The superintendent shall receive such compensation as shall
be provided in the budget, shall be responsible to the Commissioner
of Mental Hygiene for the operation of the institution in his charge,
and shall submit to the Department such reports, including medical
and financial, as the Department of Mental Hygiene may request. It
shall be the duty of the superintendent to inform the Department
of Mental Hygiene of the conditions in his institution, and to order
that such changes as seem desirable for the welfare of the patients
be put into effect, with the approval of the Department of Mental
Hygiene.

25.

The Commission COMMISSIONER [Commissioner] shall report
annually to the Governor and to the Secretary of Health and Mental
Hygiene as promptly as possible after December 31st his acts and
proceedings; also make a report of all the different institutions,
public and private, and whether corporate or under individual man-
agement or control, including almshouses and county asylums where
the insane or feeble-minded are kept. The report shall include a con-
cise review of the work of the several institutions under the super-
vision of the Department for the year pre