Lunacy law : the statutes relating to private lunatics, pauper lunatics, criminal lunatics, commissions of lunacy, public and private asylums and the commissioners in lunacy / with an introductory commentary, notes to the Statutes, references to cases decided in the superior courts, and a copious index by Danby P. Fry ; edited by George F. Chambers.

  • Danby Palmer Fry
Date:
1890
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Credit: Lunacy law : the statutes relating to private lunatics, pauper lunatics, criminal lunatics, commissions of lunacy, public and private asylums and the commissioners in lunacy / with an introductory commentary, notes to the Statutes, references to cases decided in the superior courts, and a copious index by Danby P. Fry ; edited by George F. Chambers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    CIRCULAK LETTER OF THE LOCAL GOVERN- MENT BOARD. The Lunacy Act, 1890. [53 Vict., Cap. 5.] Local Government Board, Whitehall, S.W., SlR^ 23 April, 1890. I am directed by the Local Government Board to draw the attention of the Guardians to the Lunacy Act, 1890, which received the Royal Assent on the 29th ultimo, and which comes into operation on the 1st May next. The Act consolidates the law respecting lunatics, and repeals most of the previous enactments on the subject. Twenty-seven statutes are thus wholly or partially re- pealed and re-enacted; and on referring to the fifth schedule to the Act it will be seen that tlie repeal prac- tically extends to all the enactments relating to pauper lunatics and to the powers and duties of boards of guar- dians and their officers in relation to them. The substi- tuted provisions are contained in various parts of the new Act; but attention may be especially directed to sections 13 to 22, which deal with summary reception orders, to sections 24 to 26, which relate to lunatics ni workhouses, to sections 55 to 82, which provide for the absence from asylums of lunatics on trial or for health, the boarding out of lunatics, and their removal and discharge, and to Part X. of the A(;t, which has reference to the expenses of pauper lunatics. The measure embodies the provisions of an Aft passed last year called the Lunacy Acts Amendment Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 41), by which important alterations were made in the law relating to pauper lunatics. These alterations have not yet taken effect, as the Act was not for the most part to come into operation until the 1st May next. As it has now been supersedtd by the Act of 2 c 2