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Monthly inspection by visitors.—Two or more of the visitors, one of whom shall De a medical officer, shall, once at least in every month, together inspect every part of the asylum of which they are victors, and see and examine, as far as circumstances will permit, every lunatic and broader therein, and the order and certificate for the admission of every lunatic admitted since the last visitation of the visitors, and shall enter in a book to be kept for that purpose any remarks which they may deem proper in regard to the management and condition of the asylum and the inmates thereof. Comment In England visitors in lunacy commonly referred to as "Chancery visitors" discharge, amongst other functions the duty of visiting lunatics so found by inquisition and also 12 persons not so found, but with reference to whom proceedings have been taken in lunacy.5