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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![court in the county where established, and said person being or residing within such jurisdiction. Such order shall state, that the justice or judge finds, that the person committed is insane and is a fit person for treatment in an insane asylum. And said justice or judge shall see and examine the person alleged to be insane, or state in his final order the reason why it was not deemed necessary or advisable to do so. The hearing, except when a jury is summoned, shall be at such place as the judge or jus- tice shall appoint. Sect. 3. No person shall be committed as' above, unless, in addition to the oral testimony there shall have been filed with the judge or justice a certificate signed b}' two physicians, each of whom shall be a graduate of some legally organized medical college, shall have practised three years in the state, and neither of whom shall be connected with an}T hospital or other establishment for treatment of the insane. Each must have personally examined the person alleged to be insane within five days of signing the certificate ; and each shall certif}', that, in his opinion said person is insane and a proper subject for treatment in an insane hospital. And he shall specify the facts, on which his opinions are founded. A copy of the certificate, attested by the judge or justice committing, shall be delivered by the officer or other person making commitment to the superintendent of the hospital or other place of commitment, and shall be filed and kept with the order. Order to state that person com- mitted is insane Certificate of insanity signed by two regular physicians to be filed with judge. [Statutes 1879, chap. 222.] An Act concerning the fee for certificates of insanity. Section 1. The fee for giving the certificate required Fee of phy- by section eight of chapter two hundred and twenty-three eftm/ate of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, of insanity, and by the acts amending the same, is hereby fixed at two dollars for each physician, with twenty cents for each mile travelled one way. Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved April 16, 1879. [Above is the present general law regulating the commit- ment of lunatics. The power, with all the incidents thereof, to commit insane persons to lunatic hospitals, that judges of probate courts have within their counties, is derived from an act of 1862, enlarging the power given to probate judges by the older statutes. The act of 1862 is therefore first cited.] [Statutes 1862, chap. 223.] Sect. 3. Any of the judges of the supreme judicial, Inganeper. superior, and probate courts, and, in the city of Boston, sons,how](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21069669_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
