Report of the Royal Commission on the care and control of the feeble-minded, Volume VIII.

  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-minded.
Date:
1908
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    B.—THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES. (d) Financial Arrangements. (Recommendations XL.-XLVIL) Note.—The Section of the Lunacy Act, 1890, above referred to is printed below. 242.—(1.) For the purpose of providing asylum accommodation, a local authority may do all or any of the following things :— (a.) Provide and maintain an asylum alone ; (b.) Agree to unite in providing and maintaining a district asylum with any other local authority provided or local authorities ; {c.) Agree to unite with anj' other local authority or local authorities upon such terms as to payment and otherwise as may he thought proper for the joint use as a district asylum of any existing asylum, and, if they think fit, for the enlargement of the same. (2.) Where an agreement to unite has been entered into, an agreement for further union may be entered into between all or any of the local authorities concerned, and for all the purposes of this Act an agreement for further union shall be deemed to be an agreement to unite. (3.) An agreement to unite shall not be carried into effect without the approval of a Secretary of State. Note to Recommendation XXXIX. Modes in which asylum may be (d) FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS. (Recommendations XL to XLVII.) Recommendation XL. viii’^above That the transfers and payments now made by county and county Discontinuance of borough councils pursuant to s. 24 (2), (e), (f) and (g) of the Local Govern- ment Act, 1888, out of the funds placed at their disposal by the Exchequer contribution under that Act from Local Taxation, Probate Duties, etc., consisting of: (a) 4s. per week to the county fund liable to bear the expenses of pauper lunatics chargeable to the county in respect of each county lunatic; (b) 4s. per week to boards of guardians in respect of each lunatic chargeable to guardians and maintained in an asylum, registered hospital or licensed house; (c) 4s. per week to borough councils in respect of each lunatic chargeable to borough funds shall be discontinued. That the total cost of the maintenance, care and treatment, education, training and control of mentally defective persons and of the provision of suitable accommodation for them shall be borne by the county and county borough councils aided by new grants from the Exchequer. Local Government Act, 1888, Section 24 (2) (e) (/) and (g) :— (2) In substitution for local grants, the council of each county shall from time to time as from the said day pay out of the county fund and charge to the Exchequer Contribution Account the following sums, that is to say— (e) They sluill transfer to that account of the county fund to which the maintenance of any pauper lunatic chargeable to the county is charged, a sum equal to four shillings a week for each such pauper lunatic, for whom the net charge upon the county council, after deducting any amount received by the county council for the maintenance of sucli lunatic from any source other than local rates, is equal to or exceeds four shillings a week throughout the period of maintenance for which the sum is so transferred ; (/.) They shall pay to the guardians of every poor law union wholly or partly in the county a sum equal to four shillings a week for each jiauper lunatic chargeable to that union, and maintained in an asylum, registered hospital, or licensed house, for whom the net charge upon the guardians, , after deducting any amount received by them for the maintenance of such lunatic from any source other than local rates, is equal to or exceeds four shillings a week throughout the period of maintenance for whicli the sum is so paid ; and ((/.) They shall pay to the council of each borough to which the maintenance of any pauper lunatic is chargeable, a sum equal to four shillings a week for each such pauper lunatic for whom the net charge upon the council of the borough, after deducting any amount received by them for the maintenance of such lunatic from any source other than local rates, is equal to or exceeds four shillings a week throughout the'period of maintenance for which the sum is so paid. Recommendation XLI. A.—That substantial financial assistance be granted from the Ex- j]xchequer grant vTi/'above chequer to a Council'of the County or County Borough for the care and payable to local maintenance of mentally defective persons, and of epileptics not mentally authorities, defective, and that this assistance be granted by one or other of the following methods, either :— (i) On them ethod of an annual block grant on the principle that the grant be greater or less according to the proportion of the local expenditure to an approved standard of proper and economical expenditure and also greater or less as the assessable value per head of the population of the district is smaller or larger; or 103.-VHI. 237 3 A 2