ARTICLE  XII receive any payment therefor, either directly or indirectly. SECTION  850 . Words and Phrases Defined. —  "Government hospital for the insane", as used in this chapter, includes any place for insane persons under Government control or any private institution or person receiving insane patients under contract with the D irector of Health. SIaHTD "Insane person", as herein used, is a person afflicted with insanity, which, in the intendment of this law, is a manifestation, in language, or conduct, of disease or defect of the brain, or a more or less permanently diseased or disordered condition of th e mentality, functional or organic, and characterized by perversion, inhibition, or disordered function of the sensory or of the intellective faculties, or by impaired or disordered volition. SECTION  852 . Admission of Insane Persons to Hospitals for Insane. — The Director of Health shall have authority to admit insane persons to any Government hospital for the insane, upon such terms as the Secretary of the Interior shall approve. SECTION  853 . Authority of Director of Health to Make Contracts for Care of Insane. —  When necessary or desirable for the adequate and proper accommodation of insane persons, the Director of Health may make contracts, [2122-2.] [2122-1.] [2122-9.] SECTION  851 . Authority of Director of Health as Regards Supervision Over Insane Persons. —  The Director of Health shall have authority to inquire into the history and mental condition of all insane or alleged insane persons and require information relating  to such persons; to make such regulations as may be necessary for the sanitary erection, maintenance, and repair of buildings in which the insane are quartered, and to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the public safety and for  the general welfare and proper protection of all persons under treatment for insanity, whether such persons be under the care of public or private institutions or of their guardians or other persons in their homes. [985-5; 1487-12; Comp., 1235.] Government Hospitals for Insane 263 Copyright 2012 CD Technologies Asia, Inc. and Accesslaw, Inc. Philippine Law Encyclopedia 2011