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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    See j)iirii-;iaiilis 311 312, r.S4, 59s. ENGLAND AND WALES. C.-GDARDIANSHIP AND SUPERVISION. (a) Persons after 21. (Recommendations LIII.-IJV.) Form 2. Form of Statement to accompany Medical Certificate. [If any particulars in this statement be not known, the faet to be so stated.] Note to Name or patient, with Christian name at length. Recommendation Sex and age. • , , . hU.-contd. U hen and where previously under care and treatment. In any asylum or institution. Whether subject to epilepsy. Whether dangerous to others. I certify that to the best of my knowledge the above particulars are correctly stated. (Signed) Name and full postal address. [To be signed by the parent or guardian of the idiot or imbecile or the person undertaking and performing towards him the duty of a parent or guardian.] (b) PERSONS AFTER 21. (Recommendations LIII. to LIV.) Recommendation LllI. That in the case of persons over 21 years of age for whose care and Petition may be control any Council is required to make suitable and sufficient provision, QQ^j^^ifttee^as^^^ who have not been under the wardship of the Committee or dealt with next friend in under Recommendation LI. above, and are alleged to be mentally defective certain cases over as defined in Recommendation IV., the Committee shall deal with the case as they think fit with a view to the proper care, control, and safeguard of the mentally defective person, and may, if they deem it right by one of their officers, present a petition as next friend of the said person, under Sections 4 to 8 of the Lunacy Act, 1890, as modified in Recommendation LX VIII., or may make an urgency order or apply for a summary reception order under Sections 11 and 13 of the Lunacy Act, 1890, as modified in Recommendation LXXI. j ) J i Recommendation LIV. That if in the opinion of the Committee and of their Medical Officer it Power to allow is desirable that any person over 21 years of age who is mentally defective as defined in Recommendation IV., and who might otherwise be taken defective person, charge of by the Committee, should be retained under the care of a relation or friend, nothing in the proposed Act shall prevent this. D.—PROCEDURE IN REGARD TO MENTALLY DEFECTIVE PERSONS. (Recommendations LV. to LXXI.) (a) INQUIRY AS TO THE NUMBERS OF DEFECTIVE PERSONS AND NOTIFICATION. (Recommendations LV. to LVIII.) Recommendation LV. That, with a view to facilitate the work of the Committee in the first loquby as to instance, it shall be its duty in pursuance of regulations to be laid down by tally^defeLh-T the Board of Control to ascertain as far as possible the number of mentally persons, defective persons for whom the Council is liable to provide, either by the Medical Officer of the Committee or by a well qualified medical man appointed for the purpose, acting under the supervision of the Medical Officer. I03-VIII. 343 3 B