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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    TEXAS. The following persons may be admitted into the asylum as patients: 1. All persons who have been adjudged insane by a court of competent jurisdiction in this State and ordered to be conveyed to the asylum. This class shall be known as public patients. 2. All persons who may be certified to be insane by some respectable physician, under the regulations hereafter stated. This class shall be known as private patients. Before any person can be admitted as a private patient the parent or legal guardian of such person, or, in case he has no parent or legal guardian, some near relative or other person interested in him, must present a written request to the superintendent for his admission, setting forth the name, age, and residence of the lunatic, with such other par- ticulars as may be required. This request must be under oath and ac- companied with the affidavit of the physician certifying to the insanity that he has made careful examination of the person and verily believes him to be insane. There must also be a certificate from the county judge of the county where the lunatic resides, that the examining physician is a respectable physician in regular practice. All private patients shall be kept at their own expense, or the expense of their relatives or friends. All public patients shall be kept at the expense of the State, but money so paid may be collected from the patient or those liable for his support, if they have property. If applications be made for the admission of more patients than can be accommodated in the asylum, preference shall be given, in all instances, to public over private patients, and of the former class to cases of less than one year's duration over chronic cases, and to indigent patients over those possessed of property ; and no private patients shall be admitted during the pendency of an application by a public patient, nor shall any public non-indigent patient be admitted during the pendency of an appli- cation by an indigent public patient. No idiot who can be safely kept in the county to which he belongs, nor any person with an infectious or contagious disease, shall be received into the asylum as a patient. Any patient (except such as are charged with, or convicted of, some offence and have been adjudged insane in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure) may be discharged from the asylum at any time upon the recommendation of the superintendent, approved by the board of managers. Any patient coming within the above ex- ception can only be discharged by order of the court by which he was committed. No patient shall be discharged without suitable clothing, and money • Revised Statutes of Texas, 1879, pp. 20-20, 386, 387. Penal Code [bound with Revised Statutes], p. 5. Code of Criminal Procedure [bound with Revised Statutes], pp. 66, 86, 112, 113. General Laws of Texas, 1883, pp. 9-11, 103-105.