Annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum. : Utica, January 16, 1844.
- New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum
- Date:
- 1844
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum. : Utica, January 16, 1844. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The first judge to send those that are indigent but not paupers, and the justices of the peace to commit to the care of the overseers or superin¬ tendents of the poor for transmission to the Asylum, “ any person so far disordered in his senses as to endanger his own person or the per¬ son and property of others, if permitted to go at large.” Judges of the county to commit those who are in confinement under criminal J charge who become insane, and those acquitted of crime on the ground of insanity. The superintendents of the poor of counties, have the right to send to the Asylum, provided it is not full, any insane person in their charge, without instituting any proceedings to prove the insanity, provided the insanity commenced previous to the passage of the act to organize the Asylum, passed April 7th, 1842. Since the passage of that act they are required to send to the State Lunatic Asylum, or to such public or private asylum as may be ap¬ proved of by a standing order or resolution of the supervisors of the county, within ten days, every case of lunacy committed to their care and provided for by Title three. Chapter twenty, Part first of the Re¬ vised Statutes. But in all such cases the act of the 7t.h of April, 1842, directs as fol¬ lows : ‘‘In every case of ‘confinement’ under the statute, Title three, aforesaid, whether of a pauper or not, after the passage of this act, neither justices, superintendents or overseers of the poor, shall order or ‘approve’ of such confinement, without having the evidence of two reputable physicians, under oath, as to the alleged fact of insanity, and such testimony shall be reduced to writing and fiied, with a brief report of all the other proofs, facts, and proceedings in the case, in the office of the county clerk, and said clerk shall file said papers, and register with date, the names and residence of the lunatic and officers severally in a tabular form, in the book of miscellaneous records, kept in said office ; and the certificate of said clerk and seal of the court, verifying such facts, shall warrant such lunatic’s admission into the Asylum.” Justices of the peace are required also to direct the apprehension and confinement of any person so furiously mad as to endanger himself or the person or property of others if permitted to go at large, but they are to institute the same inquiry and proceedings as above cited. They -1 Assembly, No. 21.] 8](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30318658_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
