Annual report for the year 1917 : (20th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.

  • Metropolitan Asylums Board (London, England)
Date:
1918
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Credit: Annual report for the year 1917 : (20th year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cases after 16 years of age. The provisions in this behalf are now incorporated in an Order dated 29 December, 1911, and called the Metropolitan Asylums (Mentally Defective Persons) Order, 1911, which defines the mentally defective persons to be received as persons not certified as lunatics, who bjT reason of mental defect are incapable of receiving proper benefit from ordinary instruction, or cannot be properly trained in association with other persons in ordinary schools or institutions, or are incapable of using ordinary means or precautions for protecting themselves from injury or improper usage or treatment, or are incapable of maintaining themselves by work ; provided that anv such poor person on admission into an asylum belonging to the Metropolitan Asylum Managers shall not exceed 21 years of age. On 1 January, 1918, the Local Government Board consented, for a period of five years, to the reception into certain of the Managers’ asylums and industrial colonies of cases certified under the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913. (v.) Boys for training. The provision of a training ship for the training of boys for sea service was sanctioned by the Local Government Board in 1875, under the terms of the Metropolitan Poor Amendment Act, 1869 pa & 33 Vic., 0.63, s. n.j (vi.) Sick children. By Orders of the Local Government Board, dated 2 April, 1897, and 11 September, 1908, the Board was constituted as the central metropolitan authority for dealing with various classes of poor law children, the sick and convalescent, those suffering from ophthalmia and ringworm and the mentally defective (see above). Under the first of these Orders the Board also provided for juvenile offenders from 1902 to 1910, when this branch of work was trans¬ ferred to the London County Council. (vii.) Casual poor. On 10 November, 1911, the Local Government Board issued the Metropolitan Casual Paupers Order, 1911, forming a district conterminous with the existing Metropolitan Asylum district for the relief of the casual poor of the metropolis. The Order also provided under section 10 of the Pauper Inmates Discharge and Regulation Act, 1871 [34 & 35 vic.,c. 10s], that the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylum district should be the Managers of the new district. Prior to the issue of this Order, every metropolitan board of guardians was required by the Metropolitan Houseless Poor Act, 1864 [27 & 28 vie., c. lie], to provide casual wards for “ destitute wayfarers and foundlings. As contemplated in the Casual Paupers Order, the Local Government Board on 28 March, 1912, issued the Metropolitan Casual Wards (Transfer) Order, 1912, transferring to the Managers on terms prescribed therein those of the casual wards provided under the Act quoted, which it was proposed to continue. The effect of these two Orders was to centralise the control under the Board, from 1 April, 1912, of most of the casual wards administered prior to that date by the separate boards of guardians. In connection with the casual wards the Board has undertaken the management of a scheme for dealing, in co-operation with the police and voluntary agencies,.with the homeless poor at night.