The lunacy acts : containing all 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, including references to decided cases, and a copious index / by Danby P. Fry.

  • United Kingdom
Date:
1864
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The lunacy acts : containing all 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, including references to decided cases, and a copious index / by Danby P. Fry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Penalties—continued. visitors, 275; preventing relations and friends visiting lunsitics pursuant to order of commissioners or visitors, 284; witnesses not appearing when summoned, or refusing to be sworn or examined, 295; omitting to transmit notice of discharge of single patient, 331; physician, surgeon, or apothecary, signing certificate contrarj' to Act, 459; ill-treating lunatics in asy- lums, 459, 460; allowing lunatics to escape, 460; for ill-treat- ing lunatics in licensed house, 324; for signing medical certifi- cate conti'ary to Act, 326; for not giving notice to commis- sioners of dismissal of nurse or attendant for misconduct, 333; obstructing execution of orders of Lord Chancellor, Secretary of State, or commissioners, 26, 336; clerk of the peace neg- lecting to send to commissioners copy of agreement for uniting, or refusing inspection thereof, 364; clerk to asylum not re- porting dismissal of nurse or attendant to commissioners, 396; not transmitting to commissioners copy of annual report on asylum, 399; neglecting to make out or transmit annual list of pauper lunatics, 401; in respect of quarterly visitation, etc., of pauper lunatics not in asylums, 406, 595-597; on medical officers, relieving officers, overseers, and constables, with respect to pauper lunatics not in asylums, 415, 596; relieving officer, overseers, and constables, neglecting to execute order for re- moval of lunatics to asylum, 109, 416; for not removing lunatic ordered to be discharged from asylum, 424; not trans- mitting to commissioners copy of order, etc., as to admission of lunatic into asylum, 429; medical officer omitting to make entries in medical journal and case book, 430; clerk of asy- lum not sending entries of visiting commissioner in books of asylum to commissioners, 431; medical officer omitting to make or sign statement, 429; omitting to make entry in medical journal and case book, 430; clerk and medical officer of asylum not signing notice and statement with regard to death of patient, 432; clerk of asylum omitting to malce entries or send notice to commissioners ^vith regard to dis- charge, removal, escape, or recapture of lunatics, 433; pro- prietor allowing physician, etc., to reside on premises when commissioners or justices have not signified approval of him,^ 508; for infringing terms of licence, 55, 509; proprietor of licensed house not transmitting copies of entries made by visiting commissioners or visitors in visitors' book, 519; con- niving at escape of lunatic, 521; with respect to correspond- ence of patients, 523; person having charge of single patient neglecting to comply with regulations ns to medical visitation book, 524; proceedings for recovery of, 29G, 424; power of justices to reduce, 296; application of, 297; mitigation of, on a]>peal, 298, 299; prosecution for, by order of conunissioncrs, 300; application of, 300; under repealed Acts, recovery of, 301; application of, 301; recovery of, 461; to whom to bo jwid, 461; application of tlicra, 144, 461; may bo reduced on ap)}0!il to quarter sessions, 462; on person carelessly allowing