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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    C.-OTJAEDIANSHIP AND SUPERVISION. . (a)—Person* under 21. (Rkoommendations XLIX.-LII.) Recommendation LI. Cases under 21 under suitable parental or other control. That in the case of persons under 21 years of age who, in the opinion of the Committee, are under suitable parental or other control, and are receiving suitable training, or are not cruelly treated or other- wise neglected, but in the judgment of the responsible Medical Officer of the Committee come within any of the classes (3) to (9), inclusive, of Recommendation IV., the Committee endeavour to make a voluntary agreement with the parent or guardian for the appointment of a Friendly Visitor who, with the Committee, shall be consulted as to any proposed removal of the person from his or her present residence or any change in regard to his or her education and training or any question of marriage, and generally in regard to any matter that may affect the well-being of the person at the time or in the future, so that the parent or guardian may have the benefit of the advice and co-operation of the Committee and of the Friendly Visitor. Recommendation LII. Adaptation of Idiots Act procedure to other classes of mentally defective persons That, following the precedent of the Idiots Act, 1886, any person under 21 years of age who comes within any of the classes (3) to (9)^ inclusive, of Recommendation IV. may be placed by the parents or guardians or by any person undertaking and performing towards him the duty of a parent or guardian, or by the Committee, in any registered institution or house for the mentally defective, upon the certificate in writing of a qualified medical practitioner, without the intervention of a judicial authority; and on reaching the age of 21 may, with the consent of the Board of Control, be retained after he is of full age. Note.—The Sections of the Idiots Act specially referred to above are reprinted below:— Section 4 of the Idiots Act, 1886. 4. An idiot or imbecile from birth or from an early age may, if under age, be placed by his parents or guardians or by any person undertaking and performing towards him the duty of a parent or guardian, and may lawfully be received into, and until of full age detained in, any hospital, institution, or Licensed house, registered under this Act for the care, education, and training of idiots or imbeciles upon the certificate in writing of a duly qualified medical practitioner in the Fonn One in the Schedule that the person to whom such certificate relates is an idiot or imbecile, capable of receiving benefit from such hospital, institution, or licensed house, accompanied by a Statement in the Form Two in the Schedule signed by the parent or guardian of the idiot or imbecile, or the parson undertaking or performing towards him the duty of a parent or guardian. First Paragraph of Section 5 of the Idiots Act, 1886. 5. Any idiot or imbecile who has while under age been received under thi.s Act into any hospital, institution, or licensed house, registered under this Act, may, with the consent in writing of the Com- missioners in Lunacy, be retained therein after he is of full age The SCHEDULE. Form 1. Form of Medical Certificate. I, the undersigned A.B., a person registered under the Medical Act, 1858, and in the actual practice of the medical profe.ssion, certify that I have carefully examined C.D., an infant [or of full age], now residing at , and that I am of oj>inion that the said C.D. is an idiot [or has been imbecile from birth, or for years past or from an early age], and is capable of receiving benefit from [the institution (describing it)], registered under the Idiots Act, 1886. (Signed) Dated (full postal address). See paragraph 345. See paragraph 531.