- The following are the rules for the protection of lunatics in transit to an asylum:-(i)The Civil Surgeon, before despatching a lunatic to the asylum for which he is destined, shall furnish a certificate of the actual condition of the patient's health at the time of despatch; and a copy of this certificate shall be given to the escort for exhibition to the police authorities on the road, and to the authorities of the asylum on arrival.(ii)The Superintendent of Police shall give the escort their route, which shall in all cases be the most direct or otherwise the best route, and the escort shall be directed to call at all the police-stations, lying on the line of their route. The officer-in-charge of the first police-station visited (or should the guard pass a district or Sub-divisional headquarters station en route, the superior officer at such station) shall, after inspecting the certificate prescribed in sub-clause (i), enter upon it the date of the lunatic's arrival and the apparent condition of his health, noticing especially any marks of violence, should there be any. The entry shall be copied in the general diary. Should the officer notice any marks of violence, he shall carefully ascertain how the violence was inflicted, collecting all the available evidence, and reporting the matter to headquarters, detaining the escort meanwhile, but forwarding the lunatic, if he is able to proceed. The officer-in-charge of every succeeding station shall act precisely in the same way, with the addition that it shall be his duty to inspect, besides the certificate, any entry or entries made upon it under this regulation.(iii)On the arrival of the lunatic at the asylum, the certificate with all the entries upon it shall be carefully examined and compared with the condition of the lunatic, and an entry of his condition at the time of arrival added to the previous entries on the paper.(iv)The escort shall not be dismissed except as hereafter provided, until the Superintendent of the asylum has himself seen the lunatic and compared his condition with the certificate, which shall then with the Superintendent's entry on it, be sent direct by post to the Magistrate from whose district the lunatic was despatched. In the case shall be escort be detained for more than 24 hours. Should the Superintendent be temporarily absent from the asylum, the certificate of the overseer or Sub-Assistant Surgeon or doctor in charge shall be given.(v)In addition to the usual police escort, a female attendant shall accompany any female lunatic who is transferred from a prison to an asylum or from an asylum to a prison, or who is forwarded for release to the custody of her relative or friends. A female attendant shall also accompany any female lunatic who is sent up for trial as recovered. The female attendant shall in all cases be arranged for by the authority that requisitions for a police escort.Note. - When escorting a non-criminal certified harmless lunatic to the asylum the police shall wear plain clothes.
