The rights of the insane and their enforcement / by Clark Bell.

  • Bell, Clark, 1832-1918.
Date:
[between 1880 and 1889]
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Credit: The rights of the insane and their enforcement / by Clark Bell. 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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    98 * for/with the sanction of the Commission,: to send two medi- 'bal men to test the mental condition.fbf any patient :uiider ^'tontrol. , xi^ jj->;H icii >v.-. ..,,!U(]0 -u'-ifi flr-ii'-' -.m; ''■y.v{d) That the pei^sonal examination of Ghan'cery Lunatics ;be extended by the Commission to all lunaties, drrespectivejiof the possession of property. ?ftoi Greater freedom of patients in Asylums, and of their visitation by friends, and in. correspondence,: and additional ; safeguards against the undu^e, ,91: ^finnecessary infringement of , personal liberty.*— ainaiteq lo aisJJai In the Bill of 1881, draA^ij,,]:|y. Mr. Dill^A^.,y^^^^^ among other things— r ,rir r;< {a) That no person should be confined as a lunatic except upon, an order of a Judge or Justice, arid that 'order' based ' upon tile certifica^^^ two niedical'me'ri,' one 6f wh6rii should 'fee'^e^'mie^cal officer 'cif' the' district^'arid^ ripon' ■due iiotice by tli'e Judge or Justice; and''that'such' order 'khoiald not be made except at the ihstaneb'bf a'ii^^aABtative ^'of cif some solicitor of repute: ••t^j ^^^^^ ,b:Ji:^xo ^' For violent lunatics he prdp6§Sa'''fh'^^f*plMof-^an»^ fetnergency certificate, justifying the detention of persons '■^who had paroxysms of lunacy for twenty-four hours, but no 'i'dhgef^ Except upon competent authority. if)' A's'tb discharges, that patients could be discharged on the order of a Judge at Chancery;'a' Stipendiary Magistrate^ '■■ 'bi^ i'county court Judge,' Wlio''should Order tvl^d iiiedical tttfeii''tb visit the lunatic, arid'r'epbrt bn the^ case. That such Judge, after communicating with the Lliria'cy Cbmmissiohers''' might order the lunatic to be liberated within ten days. From this brief review of the progress of lunacy legislation in England, let us for a moment turn tour'eyes to our own country. Take, mv own, State. of N.ew York: and while,.she ,has ■ ) '71 <^,V.- Ji, fi'i fiviv ■)(:• bi 1J< .'iT-'. T fc;i i -Jill Ij;fl r f v, j adopted, a code^ of lu^ac>^^ ^ laws, containing /many wise and humane provisions, there 'is as wide a^^ulf as tiia|t/\Yhich divided Lazarus arid the 'nch maW,' iri''tiie yaralDle'^ Saviour, between thq rights,, the safeguards and tlie ste^bs .i'liiilii.'nori li.iii I', ; '! : j ,i- r ■ ^\~\ •\ \\\\ .■-in * Parliamentary Debates, 3d Series, Vol. 221. tuke's, History of Ihe Insane,