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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    Refusal of an order of justices, appeal in such case, 294. Refusing to permit relations or friends to visit patient in licensed house or hospital, penalty, 182. Register of Admissions. See Registry of Admissions. Register of discharges, removals, and deaths to be kept, 331 ; entries to he made in, 62, 66, 336 ; inspection of book, 246, 248; form of book, 348. Register of Mechanical Restraint, 331; entries in, 335. Register of voluntary boarders, 335. Register of Patients, entries to be made in, 332, 345. Registered hospital, defined, 310; regulations for government of, 23, 33, 262, 264; when pauper lunatics should be sent to, 55; pauper lunatics sent to, from boroughs, 71, 120; part of cost of maintenance to be paid by borough and part by guardians, 120; pauper lunatics in, grant from Parliament in aid of cost of maintenance, 71. See Hospitals. Registering hospitals for reception of lunatics, 23. See Hospitals. Registrar of deaths, statement with regard to death of patient to be sent to, 337 ; notice of death of patient in asylum to be sent to, 339 ; fees to, 338, 339; duty of relative or friend to send certificate of death to, 338; penalty for neglect, 339; duty of relative or friend to give information concerning death to, 339 ; but information need not be given at once, if a notice aud medical certificate be sent to, 338 ; duty of to register death without fee, except when he has to register the death at the house of the deceased person, 338, 339. Registration of death by registrar without fee or reward, except when he has to register the death at the house of the deceased, 338, 339 ; of death of person ui3on whose body an inquest has been held, 339 ; of deaths occurring in asylum, 338. Registration of deaths, 338, 339; duty of coroner, 339; fees for, 338, 339. Registration of hospitals, 22, 23, 263; of institutions for idiots and imbeciles, 141. Registration of physician or surgeon, 281; of medical officer of lunatic asylum, 281. Registration of reasons of medical attendant against discharge of patient by commissioners or visitors, 194. Registry of Admissions, entries to be made in, 332, 345 ; inspection of, 246, 248. Regulations as to execution of Act, commissioners to make, 81, 235 ; as to dietary for patients, 184, 247; as to government of registered hospitals, 23, 33, 262, 264 ; of licensed houses, 33, 262. See Rules. Regulation and management of asylums and appointment of officers, 279, 280. Reimbursement of county for maintenance of lunatic after settlement has been ascertained, 290. Reimbursement of guardians for cost of past maintenance of pauper, out of his property, 93. Relative, grant to by King, of wardship of idiot and of his estate, 8 ; duty of, to give information to registrar of occurrence of a death, when he has knowledge of the i'act, 338 ; the information need not be given at once if a notice and medical certificate be sent to registrar, 338; liability to provide ibr maintenance of lunatic sent from workhouse to asylum, 72, 292. Relatives, lunatics taken care of by, 2, 19 ; supervision if kept in unlicensed house, 20; or coufiiied in asylum, 19; lunatics living with, in ])rivate houses, 19; if profit be not made no general legal supervision, 20; but Lord Chanctilor or Home Secretary may order visitation, 20; penalty i'ur obstructing execution of orders, 20, 301; of lunatic not so found by inquisition, payment to, of proceeds arising from property for benefit of lunatic, 19, 225 ; visits of, to patients in licensed house or hospital, 182 ; liability of, to maintain lunatics preserved, 70, 72, 291; of lunatics in