The second annual report of the North Wales Lunatic Asylum, Denbigh : for the year M.DCCC.L.

  • North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1851
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Credit: The second annual report of the North Wales Lunatic Asylum, Denbigh : for the year M.DCCC.L. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Committee of Visitors beg to call the attention of the Magistrates and Parochial Authorities to the following SECTIONS OF 8 & 9 VICT., Cap. 126. SECTION XLVIII. Medical officer to give notice of any chargeable pauper deemed to be lunatic to parish officers.'] And be it enacted, That the medical officer of every parish and union who shall have knowledge that any person chargeable to such parish, or to any parish within such union, is or is deemed to be lunatic, shall within three days after obtaining such knowledge give notice thereof in writing to the overseers of the poor of the parish, if the parish be not within an union, and to the relieving officer of the union if the parish be within an union ; Overseer or relieving officer to give notice to a justice] and every such overseer and relieving officer who shall have knowledge, either by such notice or other¬ wise, that any person chargeable to the parish of such overseer, or to any parish within the union of such relieving officer, is deemed to be lunatic, shall within three days after obtaining such knowledge give notice thereof to some justice of the county or borough within which such parish is situate ; and thereupon the said justice shall by an order under his hand and seal require the overseer or relieving officer of the parish or union to bring such person before him or some other justice of the said county or borough, at such time and place within three days from the time of such notice being given to such justice, as shall be appointed by the said order ; Justice to call in medical practitioner] and the said justice, before whom such person deemed to be a lunatic shall be brought, shall call to his assistance a physician, surgeon, or apothecary, and examine such person ; If a lunatic, the justice to order a removal to a lunatic asylum, house, or hospital] and if upon view or personal examination of such person, or from other proof \ such justice shall be satisfied that such person is lunatic, and such physician, surgeon, or apothecary, not being the medical officer of such union or parish, shall sign a certificate according to the form in schedule (E) No. 1, to this Act annexed, that such person is a lunatic, idiot, or insane person, or a person of unsound mind, such justice shall, by an order under his hand according to the form in the said schedule (E) No. 1, to this Act annexed, direct such person to be received into the asylum of the county or borough in which such parish is situate : or if there be no such asylum, or such asylum be full, then into some house duly licensed, or some hospital registered for the reception of lunatics ; To be removed by the overseer or relieving officer] and such overseer or relieving officer shall immediately convey or cause the said lunatic to be conveyed to such asylum, house, or hospital, and such lunatic shall be received and confined therein: