Duty of certain persons to inform magistrate of ill-treatment or neglect of person of unsound mind

(1) Every visitor of a medical institution, medical officer, medical practitioner and police officer to whose knowledge it comes that any person believed to be of unsound mind is not under proper care and custody, or is cruelly treated or neglected by any person having the care or charge of that person shall within three days after obtaining such knowledge give information thereof upon oath to the magistrate of the judicial district in which the person believed to be of unsound mind is or is residing. (2) Upon receipt of such information, the magistrate shall proceed to have the person examined and to hold an inquiry into his state of mind in like manner as he is required to do where information is given to him under section 33 of this Act.