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received careful consideration, and certain of them are embodied in the summary of general recommendations attached to these papers. E. Paley.

APPENDIX 2. Provisions recommended for the Supervision and Management of Lunatic Asylums in New Zealand. 1. Appoint a duly qualified medical practitioner, having knowledge and experience in the treatment of the insane and the management of Asylums, to be the Inspector of all the Asylums in the Colony. 2. Appoint a resident Medical Superintendent to every Asylum containing 100 patients or upwards. 3. Let every Asylum containing fewer than 100 patients be visited at least once a day by a qualified medical practitioner. 4. Appoint a local Inspector of every Lunatic Asylum, who shall receive a salary and shall perform the duties prescribed by the Lunacy Act. 5. Provide for every asylum (in addition to medical attendant, steward, matron, cook, laundresses, &c.) a staff consisting of one attendant to every ten patients ; let there be a male night attendant for each male division, and a female night attendant for each female division; let night attendants be free from day duty, and let no male attendant or servant or patient be allowed in the female division of the Asylum, or vice versa, without an order from the responsible officer of the establishment. 6. Make provision for the reception and treatment of middle-class private patients apart from paupers, and prohibit the association of inebriate patients with other insane persons of any class. 7. Allow idiots and imbeciles who are dangerous to themselves or others, and are thereby unfit to be at large, to be admitted for care.and treatment into the Public Asylum of the Colony. 8. Give to all who are employed in Asylum duties a regular increment of salary up to a fixed maximum, and make provision for superannuation allowances such as are to be found in the Victoria Lunacy Statute. E. Paley. ?y Authority: Geobge Didsbubx, Gorernment Printer, Wellington.—lB74. Price 9d.~\ . .