Manual for the use of the Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity of Massachusetts : containing the general and special statutes under which its authority is exercised.
- Massachusetts
- Date:
- 1880
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Manual for the use of the Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity of Massachusetts : containing the general and special statutes under which its authority is exercised. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![An Act relating to the restraining and muzzling op DOGS. [Statutes of 1877, chap. 167.] License for Sect. 4. Kvery license issued to the owner of any ClO£T^ to COI1- * taindescrip- dog in this Commonwealth shall have printed thereon a symptoms description of the s^ymptoms of the disease in dogs known of hydro- as hydrophobia, said description to be supplied by the 1867,130. secretary of the state board of health to the clerks of the several cities and towns of the Commonwealth upon application therefor. [Approved April 27, 1877. III.—THE LUNACY LAWS. [In order to exhibit clearly the present scope, require- ments, and permissions of the complicated lunac}' laws of Massachusetts, they will here be presented in a logical order, without strict regard to the order of time in which the different acts were passed. First will be shown the jurisdiction and details of commitment in regard to insane persons of all classes ; then the nature and management of the establishments to which the}^ are committed ; third- ly, their visitation and legal privileges; and, finally, the manner of their discharge. A supplement is added con- cerning idiots.] Justices of the supreme judicial and superior courts may commit insane persons to lunatic asy- lums. 1862, 223. No person to he com- mitted with out an order of court. A. The Commitment of Lunatics. [Statutes 1879, chap. 195.] An Act concerning the commitment of lunatics to hospitals. Section 1. Each justice of the supreme judicial court, and of* the superior court, in an}' county where he may at any time be, and each justice of any municipal, police or district court within the county where established, shall have the same power, with all the incidents thereof, to commit insane persons to lunatic hospitals that judges of probate courts have within their counties. Sect. 2. No person shall be committed to any luna- tic hospital, or asylum or other receptacle for the insane, public or private, without an order for such commitment signed by a justice of the supreme judicial court or superior court then being in the count}^ where such person then is or resides, or by a judge of the court of probate for said count}', or b}' a justice of a municipal, police or district](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21069669_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
