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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![insane person is a public charge or otherwise, it shall be the duty of said Board to cause application to be made to one of the judges of the supreme judicial, superior, or probate courts, for the commitment of such person to a hospital in the manner prescribed by law. [General Statutes, chap. 172.] Sect. 14. When a person indicted is at the time ap- pointed for the trial found to the satisfaction of the court to be insane, the court ma}' cause him to be removed to one of the state lunatic hospitals for such a term and un- der such limitations as they may direct. [Statutes 1862, chap. 223.] Sect. 17. When a person held in prison on a charge of having committed an indictable offence is not indicted by the grand jury, or on trial is acquitted b}r the jury by reason of insanity, the jur}r in either case shall certify that fact to the court, and thereupon, if the court is satis- fied that he is insane, they may order him to be committed to one of the state lunatic hospitals under such limita- tions as they may direct. of insane persons deprived of proper treatment, &o. G. S. 73. 1862,223, §3. 1863, 240. Prisoner found in- sane to be sent to hos- pital. 1874, c. 370. Persons ac- quitted of crimes, or not indicted by reason of insanity, how sent to state hospi- tals. G. S. 171, 172. 1873, c. 227. LUNATICS IN THE STATE PRISON. [General Statutes, chap. 180.] Section 1. The physician of the state prison as chair- man, with the superintendents of the state lunatic hospi- tals, shall constitute a commission for the examination of convicts in said prison alleged to be insane. Each com- missioner shall receive for his services in such capacity his travelling expenses and three dollars a day for each day he is so emploj'ed, which shall be charged to the prison. Sect. 2. When a convict in the prison appears to be insane, the warden or inspectors shall give notice thereof to the chairman of said commission, who shall forthwith notify the members thereof to meet at the prison. Sect. 3. The commission shall investigate the case, and if, in the opinion of a majority of them, the convict has become insane, and his removal would be expedient, they shall so report, with their reasons, to a judge of the superior court, who shall forthwith issue his warrant un- der the seal of that court, directed to the warden, author- izing him to remove the convict to one of the state lunatic hospitals, there to be kept till, in the opinion of the su- perintendent and trustees thereof, he may be recommitted consistently with his health. The superintendent when so satisfied shall certify the fact of such restoration upon the warrant, and give notice to the warden, who shall thereupon cause the convict to be reconveyed to the prison, there to remain pursuant to his original sentence, Commis- sioners ; 1844,120, §3. 1856, 135. See 1862, 8. to be no- tified by warden, &c, of in- sanity of convicts. 1844,120, §1. Insane con- victs to be removed to hospital, &c. 1S44, 120, §§ 1.2. 1853,318, §1. 1856,247, §3. See 1879, 291, § 3.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21069669_0041.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
