Summary of state laws relating to the dependent classes, 1913.

  • United States Census Bureau
Date:
1914
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Credit: Summary of state laws relating to the dependent classes, 1913. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Brandeis University Libraries, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University.

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    MARYLAND. ArTHOEITIES : Public General Laws, 1904. Laws, 1906 to 1912. [The side-note references are to pages of Public General Laws of 1904 and to pages and year of State Laws. The years in which the session laws were passed are shown in boldface type.] I. Administrative and supervisory agencies. A. PUBLICJ. 1916 1477 1910: 191 186, 1906: 1252 1264 ff 1912: 368 1910: 238 1. General.—(1) The board of state aid and charities, consisting of seven members appointed by the governor, is instructed to in- vestigate and consider the whole system of state aid to public and other institutions, may make an investigation at any time into the condition and management of any institution financially aided by the state, and reports, with recommendations, to the legislature. (2) The lunacy commission, consisting of the attorney general and four commissioners appointed by the governor, two of whom must be experienced physicians, one in the treatment of the in- sane, has supervision over all institutions, public, corporate, or private, in which insane persons are detained. The commission appoints a qualified physician as a salaried secretary and holds semiannual meetings for consultation with the boards of man- agers of the various hospitals for the insane and feeble-minded. It is vested with plenary powers for the investigation of all places in which insane persons are detained; may visit any sani- tarium or other institution where sick or infirm persons are re- ceived, for the purpose of ascertaining whether insane persons are confined therein; has power to appoint a board of visitors for each county asylum or home (almshouse) where the insane are confined, which boards make monthly reports to the commission. The commission makes annual reports to the governor. (3) Committee of visitors.—The governor is authorized to ap- point one or more persons to attend meetings of the boards of di- rectors, managers, trustees, or visitors of corporations and insti- tutions receiving financial assistance from the state to give views upon matters under discussion, but to have no vote. 2. Institutional.—(1) Hospitals for the insane.—The Spring Grove State Hospital, formerly the Maryland Hospital for the Insane, the Springfield State Hospital, the Eastern Shore State Hospital, and the Crownsville State Hospital, formerly the Hospital for the Negro Insane, are under the control of separate boards of managers appointed by the governor. There are also a number of county asylums and homes for the Insane established and controlled by the counties according to their own laws.
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