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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    ke ]);ira- ;rfi]»h 534, ke itara- rraph 668. ENGLAND AND WALES. D.'-PROCEDURE IN REGARD TO MENTALLY DEFECTIVE PERSONS. (b)—Admission, Continuance Orders, Transfers and Discharges. • (Recommendations LIX.-LXIII.) (b) ADMISSION, CONTINUANCE ORDERS, TRANSFERS AND DISCHARGES. (Recommendations LIX. to LXIII.) Recommendation LIX. That as a condition of its licence, every institution or house for the Medical Officer, care of the mentally defective shall through its Committee of Manage- ment appoint an honorary or paid Medical Officer who shall give such institution or attendance as may be directed by the Board of Control. bouse. . Recommendation LX. (1) That at least once in every year there be a revision by the Annual revision Committee of all cases of mentally defective persons who are being dealt M mentally with by them, and (2) that any changes made be reported to the Board of dedr^th^by^the Control; and that the certificate of the Medical Officer of the institution Committee, shall, under regulations to be made by the Board of Control and subject to the approval of the Committee and the Board, suffice for the continuance of residence of the mentally defective person in the institution. Recommendation LXL That in the case of mentally defective persons dealt with by the Transfer from Committee no transfer (except as mentioned in the proviso below) shall mstuution ... f ^ or house to take place from one institution or house to another or from an institution or anotbei or private house to private eare or vice versa without the authority of the Committee and care or vice versa. subject to their approval as to the selection of the institution or house or private care to which the mentally defective person is to be transferred, and the Board of Control shall make such regulations as may appear to them necessary in relation to the several classes of cases, for reports of transfers being made to them, and for the granting or withholding of their consent, provided always that the Board of Control may order the transfer of any particular case where it appears to the Board that such transfer is desirable. Recommendation LXIL That in the case of discharges of mentally defective persons from Discharge of institutions into which persons coming under classes (2) to (9), inclusive, persons from I., ,., .rv, institutions. have been admitted, the discharge may, if the Committee think fit, be ordered by the Committee on the certificate of the Medical Officer of the institution ; and, if the Medical Officer of the institution be of a contrary opinion to that of the Committee in regard to the discharge, there shall be an appeal to the Board of Control whose decision shall be final. The Regulations of the’Board to be made under Recommendation LX. shall embody directions as to the principles on which discharges shall be ordered. > > Recommendation LXIII. That under regulations to be made by the Board of Control all admissions, Xotificatinu to transfers, continuance orders, discharges and deaths be at once reported to the Committee the I Board of Control and to the Committee for the care of the Mentally ^ Defective. admissions, transfcjs, etc, 345