A letter to the chairman of the committee appointed to inquire into the state of the pauper lunatics in the county of Middlesex : to consider the propriety of extending the provisions of 14 Geo. III., cap. 49. to pauper lunatics, and of the consolidation of all Acts relative to lunatics and to lunatic asylums, and of making further provision relative thereto / by a member of the committee.
- Date:
- 1828
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A letter to the chairman of the committee appointed to inquire into the state of the pauper lunatics in the county of Middlesex : to consider the propriety of extending the provisions of 14 Geo. III., cap. 49. to pauper lunatics, and of the consolidation of all Acts relative to lunatics and to lunatic asylums, and of making further provision relative thereto / by a member of the committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![19l explanations of the paupers, when brought before the magistrates as casual poor, their places of legal settlement can be ascertained; and where, from th^ir condition, they can be removed without danger, and at but little comparative expense, The case of pauper lunatics is, however, widely different. Their idiocy or lunacy would deprive the examining magistrate of the usual means of information, as to their real place of legal settle- ment ; and it is not impossible that the cunning of lunatics might often lead them to mislead the parish officers, at a great expense, in search the leg^ilj jsettlement. Such instances have oc- curred, f The passing of a law for the erection and regu- lation of lunatic asylums, will, it is to be hoped, cause establishments of this description to be formed in almost every county, with a general conformity of plan and regulation, and a near approxiniation towards each other in expense*. Where, then, the necessity of these passings and repassings—these fetchings and carryings of pau- per lunatics ? Why, upon the adjudication of the magistrate of the lunacy of the pauper, charge;able .only as casual poor, should not such pauper be ■sent to the lunatic asylum, or licensed house, wwithin the district, and notice thereof be sent to ;fehe^Qffii3§r;P,p,f,,^]ie^p^):^)>^jt>9^ which he belon|sj^.K have already succeeded in showin'g'li<i%^this ^'^5jett'iTfidy bfe>mtiterklly promoted. , riailBq](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22281484_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
