The Mental Deficiency Act, 1913 : together with the regulations and rules made under the provisions of that Act, the departmental circulars, the Elementary (Defectice and Epileptic Children) Acts, 1899 and 1914, and, introduction and annotations / by R.A. Leach.
- Date:
- 1914
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The Mental Deficiency Act, 1913 : together with the regulations and rules made under the provisions of that Act, the departmental circulars, the Elementary (Defectice and Epileptic Children) Acts, 1899 and 1914, and, introduction and annotations / by R.A. Leach. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![shall be taken into consideration in determining the remuneration, if any, of the visitors and clerks to visitors. (2) In all places where no persons are so appointed to act as visitors of licensed houses a sufficient number of persons, possessing the like qualifications as such visitors, with the addi- tion of one or more women, shall be appointed in like manner as such visitors to act as visitors of institutions for defectives, and a clerk to sucla visitors shall be appointed in like manner as in the case of the clei'k to the visitors appointed under the Lunacy Acts, 1890 to 1911, and the expenses of visitors so appointed, including the remuneration, if any, of any visitors and clerks to visitors, shall be defrayed in like manner as the expenses of visitors under the Lunacy Acts, 1890 to 1911. (3) The visitors of institutions for defectives shall perform such functions as are assigned to them by this Act and such further functions in connection with the visitation of institutions and of the patients therein, and of defectives under guardianship, and with respect to the discharge ^of such defectives and their after care and otherwise, as may be assigned to them by regula- tions of the Secretary of State under this Act. special sessions to be held at the same time as any quarter sessions. . . . (12) Every visitor, being a medical practitioiier, shall be entitled to such remuneration for services rendered under this Act as the justices of the county or borough may approve. The places within the immediate jurisdiction of the Commissioners—i.e., the Commissioners in Lunacy—are ; The cities of London and Westminster, the counties of London and Middlesex, and the following parishes and places (that is to say) : Barnes, Kew Green, Mortlake, Merton, Mitcham, and Wimbledon, in the County of Surrey; Southend, in the County of Kent; and East Ham, Leyton, Leytonstone, Low Leyton, Plaistow, West Ham, and Walthamstow, in the County of Essex ; and also every other place, if any, within the distance of seven miles from any part of the cities of London or Westminster, or of the borough of Southwark. (Section 208 (1) and Third Schedule of Act.) One. or more ivomen.—For the part of women in the administration of the Act, see note to section 22. Section 40 (2) means that visitors of institutions for defectives in areas within the immediate jurisdiction of the Commissioners in Lunacy will have to be appointed as in other places. A cleric .... in like manner.—Section 178 of the Lunacy Act, 1890, provided : (1) The clerk of the peace or some other person to be appointed by the justices for the county or borough shall act as clerk to the visitors. (5) Every clerk to the visitors should be allowed such salary or remunera- tion for his services ns the justices for the county or borough direct. The payment is made out of the county or borough fund (section 225). PJxpenisc.'i and remuneration of vi.ntors.—See note on Lunacy Act visitors above. Function.^.—See sections 11 (3), 12 (2), 20 (d), and 40. 'Re<pdation.<i . . . vnder tlii.^ Art.—For the “further functions” assigned to the visitors, sec generally 174—183 (Visitation of Institutions and of PatioTits therein) and 221—^222 (Visitation of Patients under Guardiansh.i])) of the Home Secretary’s Regulations. 2nd April, 1914, post.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29010172_0082.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
