An Act (8 & 9 Vict. c. 100) for the regulation of the care and treatment of lunatics : with explanatory notes and comments, etc. etc. / edited by Forbes Winslow.

Date:
1845
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Credit: An Act (8 & 9 Vict. c. 100) for the regulation of the care and treatment of lunatics : with explanatory notes and comments, etc. etc. / edited by Forbes Winslow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    by the clerk of the peace for the county or borough in some newspaper commonly circulated therein, and within three days from the date of the appointment be communi- cated by the said clerk of the peace to the commissioners; and every clerk of the peace making default in either of the respects aforesaid, shall for every such default forfeit a sum not exceeding twro pounds ; and every such clerk to the visitors shall be allowed such salary or remuneration for his services (to be paid out of the monies or funds hereinafter mentioned) as the justices for the county or borough shall in general or quarter sessions direct. 22. And be it enacted, That if the clerk of any visitors shall at any time desire to employ an assistant in the exe- cution of the duties of his office, such clerk shall certify such desire and the name of such assistant to one of the visitors, being a justice; and if such visitor shall approve thereof, he shall administer the following oath to such assistant:— 4 I, A. B. do solemnly swear, That I will faithfully keep secret all such matters and things as shall come to my knowledge in consequence of my employment as assistant to the clerk of the visitors appointed for the county [or borough] of by virtue of an act of parliament passed in the ninth year of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled [here insert the title of the act], un- less required to divulge the same by legal authority, 4 So help me GOD.’ And such clerk may thereafter, at his own cost, employ such assistant. 23. And be it enacted, That no person shall be or act as a commissioner, or visitor, or secretary, or clerk to the commissioners, or clerk or assistant-clerk to any visitors, or act in granting any licence, who shall then be, or shall within one year then next preceding have been, directly or indirectly interested in any house licensed for the re- ception of lunatics, or the profits of such reception; and no physician or surgeon, (being a commissioner,) and no physician, surgeon, or apothecary, (being a visitor,) shall sign any certificate for the admission of any patient into any licensed house or hospital, or shall professionally attend upon any patient in any licensed house or hospital, unless he be directed to visit such patient by the person upon whose order such patient has been received into such licensed house or hospital, or by the Lord Chancellor, or her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the time being for the Home Department, or by a committee appointed by the Lord Chancellor ; and if any such commissioner, or visitor, or secretary or clerk to the commissioners, or clerk or his duties and remu- neration. Provision for assist- ants to the clerk of the visitors. Oath of as sistant. Persons in- terested in any licens- ed house, or being medical at- tendant on any patient therein, disqualified to act as commis- sioner, vi- sitor, secre- tary, clerk, or assist- ant.
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