Further report of the Commissioners in Lunacy, to the Lord Chancellor. Presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.
- Date:
- 1847
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Credit: Further report of the Commissioners in Lunacy, to the Lord Chancellor. Presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![APPENDIX (F.) Page 47. PROPOSED GENERAL RULES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF LUNATIC ASYLUMS; (Pursuant to the 4Stth Section of the Act 8 § 9 Viet. c. 126.) Note.—Some of these Rules will be found not applicable to some Asylums, and others may require adaptation; as in those Institutions where there is no Visiting Physician, or where Private Patients are admitted as well as Paupers, &c. COMMITTEE OF VISITORS. 1. That the Committee of Visitors, for the time being, shall meet for the first time on the third [or last]* day in January; and shall then (after appointing a Chairman and a Clerk to the Visitors,) appoint members of the Committee of Visitors to he a House Committee, for the purposes after-mentioned, of whom three shall be a quorum. 2. [That they shall appoint two of the Committee of Visitors to be Auditors for the year, who shall examine the accounts quar- terly.] 3. That the Committee of Visitors shall also meet at the Asylum on the first, [second, third, or last]* day in April, July, and October, and shall at every such meeting take into considera- tion, and determine on all contracts, rates of payment, and matters of expenditure relative to the institution. 4. That three or more of the Committee of Visitors shall, once at least in every three months, inspect the Asylum and see every Lunatic therein, and perform the duties imposed on the Committee of Visitors by the Act 8 & 9 Viet. c. 126; and shall, at each visit, insert in a book to be kept for that purpose, their opinion as to the then condition of the Asylum and of the patients therein, and also such other statements and suggestions as they may deem expedient. 5. That minutes of the proceedings of all Boards shall be kept and entered by the Clerk of the Visitors, and that at every quarterly Board, the proceedings of the last quarterly Board and of any in- tervening Boards, shall be read. 6. That Reflations and Orders for the management of the Asylum, shall be taken into consideration and determined on at the * Some particular web-day, aa Wednesday, &c.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21902756_0343.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
