Abstract of the statutes of the United States and of the several states and territories, relating to the custody of the insane / By Charles F. Folsom, with the assistance of Hollis R. Bailey.

  • Folsom, Charles Follen, 1842-1907.
Date:
1884
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Credit: Abstract of the statutes of the United States and of the several states and territories, relating to the custody of the insane / By Charles F. Folsom, with the assistance of Hollis R. Bailey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    any case that seems to require it, and, in their discretion, may petition a justice of the supreme court to have an examination made of any person's condition, in the manner above described, and said justice may, in his discretion, cause the person restrained to be discharged. Whenever the Agent of State Charities and Corrections shall make complaint, in writing, to the supreme court that any person reputed to be idiotic, lunatic, or insane, is not humanely or properly cared for, or is improperly restrained of his liberty, in any town, the court shall examine into the circumstances of the case, and, if the complaint is found true, shall order and cause such idiotic, lunatic, or insane person to be removed to the State Asylum for the Insane. Every pauper lunatic, having no legal settlement in the State, who, in the opinion of the Board of State Charities and Corrections, is insane, shall be sent by said board to the State Almshouse, or to the State Asylum for the Insane, there to be maintained at the expense of the State. The board may send to this asylum any insane pauper who has a legal settle- ment in any town, to be kept on such terms as may be agreed upon. The Agent of State Charities and Corrections shall visit all town asylums and all places where any insane person is kept, to see that no insane person is improperly confined or improperly cared for, and he may discharge at any time from any institution any insane person who has been committed thereto upon his order. No insane pauper shall be detained in any town asylum, poor-house, lockup, or bridewell for a longer period than five days, unless, in the opinion of the Agent of State Charities and Correc- tions, he is properly cared for. The Board of State Charities and Corrections may receive for treatment and care any person who shall be an inhabitant of the State who, in their opinion, is insane, upon such terms for treatment and care as may be agreed upon between said board and some responsible person, upon the written certificate of two practising physicians that, in their opinion, such person is insane. SOUTH CAROLINA.1 The following persons shall be entitled to admission as patients to the State Hospital for the Insane: (1) All persons found to be idiots or lunatics by inquisition from the probate or circuit courts, or on trial in the circuit court. (2) Where the admission is requested by the husband or wife, or, where there is no husband or wife, by the next of kin of the idiot or lunatic. (3) All persons declared lunatics, idiots, or epileptics, after due examination by one trial justice and two licensed 1 General Statutes of South Carolina, 1882, pp. 25, 270, 472-476, 751. The Code of Civil Procedure of South Carolina [bound with Gen. Stats.], pp. 15, 21, 22.