The law relating to the mentally defective : the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, with introduction, notes and appendices containing the Lunacy Act, 1890, as amended and other statutes, regulations, circular letters & c. / by Herbert Davey.

  • Davey, Herbert
Date:
1914
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Credit: The law relating to the mentally defective : the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, with introduction, notes and appendices containing the Lunacy Act, 1890, as amended and other statutes, regulations, circular letters & c. / by Herbert Davey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or parish officers, of the serious illness of any patient. In case of death the body, shall be delivered, if claimed, to the nearest relative or to the union or parish officers. If it be not claimed and removed by noon of the fourth day after death it shall be buried by the direction of the superintendent. If he shall con- sider earlier burial absolutely necessary, he shall have power to order it. 69. The medical officer of the institution shall, in the case of every patient who dies in the institution, make a post-mortem examination of the body, unless a request in writing to the contrary shall have been made to the superintendent by the patient's relative to whom statutory notice of the death is to be sent, and to whom notice of the intention to make such examination shall have been given. A careful record shall be made of the appearances found and the result of the post- mortem examination. Note.—Institution rules require the approval of the Board of Control for adoption, repeal, or alteration. They must be supplemented by written instructions for the management and conduct of the institution, which are to be made and may be varied by the Committee from time to time without such, approval, bufc which must not be inconsistent with the insti- tution rules for the time being in force. [Printed by the direction of the Board of Control. , Sec.]
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