(a) The Department of Health and Social Services shall maintain the Hospital and provide for the care and support of the inmates with due regard for their comfort and well-being.

(b) Facilities shall be afforded to the patients for their educational improvement, including edifying and inspirational entertainment and healthful recreation.

(c) Such methods in general shall be employed by the Department of Health and Social Services as will provide good order, fraternal relations and self-respect among the inmates, under humane and helpful regulations, with special reward for meritorious service and gentle reproof or reasonable restraint for misbehavior, as each particular case may warrant. No member of the Department of Health and Social Services and no person holding a position under the Department of Health and Social Services shall have any pecuniary interest, directly or indirectly, in the purchase of supplies of any kind for said Hospital and its inmates or in expenditures authorized by the Department of Health and Social Services for any purpose in connection with said Hospital and its inmates.

31 Del. C. 1953, § ?2821; 49 Del. Laws, c. 144, § ?2; 57 Del. Laws, c. 591, § ?20; 58 Del. Laws, c. 499, § ?1; 60 Del. Laws, c. 207, § ?3; 70 Del. Laws, c. 149, § ?222;