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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![Commission for exami- nation of lunatics in state prison, how consti- tuted. G-. S. 180, §1- 1862, 165. computing the time of his confinement in the hospital as part of the term of his imprisonment. [Statutes 1862, chap. 8.] Section 1. The commission for the examination of convicts in the state prison alleged to be insane, provided for in the one hundred and eighteenth chapter of the General Statutes, shall hereafter consist of the physician of the state prison, as chairman, the superintendents of the state lunatic hospitals at Worcester and Taunton, to- gether with the superintendents of the McLean Asylum at Somerville and the Boston lunatic hospital. Insane pris- oners how removed to hospitals; R.8.145,§1. 1853, 259. 1853,318, §1. 1855, 449. 1856,247, §3. See 1864, 288, § 10. 12 Allen, 510. if sane he- fore term expires, to he returned. R.S,145,§2. 1853, 259. LUNATICS IN OTHER PRISONS. Sect. 4. When a convict in a prison other than the state prison, or in the house of correction, appears to be insane, the physician attending the prison or house of cor- rection shall make a report thereof to the jailer or mas- ter, who shall transmit the same in the county of Suffolk to a judge of the superior court, and in any other county to a judge of the probate court. The judge shall make inquiry into the facts therein stated, and if satisfied that such convict is insane, he rnay, at an}* time he deems necessaiy, cause such prisoner to be removed to one of the state lunatic hospitals. Sect. 5. If a person so removed is restored to sanity before the expiration of his sentence, he shall be forth- with returned to the prison or house of correction from which he was removed, there to remain, pursuant to his original sentence, computing the time of his confinement in the hospital as part of the term of his imprisonment. B. Hospitals, Asylums, and Receptacles. THE STATE AND CITY LUNATIC HOSPITALS. [In order to present at once a marginal list of the stat- utes, old and new, regulating these establishments, the act conferring corporate powers upon the trustees of the newest state hospital — that at Danvers — is first re- printed here ; followed by the unrepealed laws concerning the older hospitals, and by the almost obsolete statutes in regard to the old-fashioned county receptacles for the in- sane, — of which that at Ipswich in Essex County is the sole remainder. The act establishing the Chronic Insane Asylum, in the old Worcester Hospital, follows the Dan- vers Act immediately.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21069669_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
