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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![[Statutes 1377, chap. 252.] An Act authorizing the appointment of trustees for the state lunatic hospital at danvers. Section 1. The government of the state lunatic hos- pital at Danvers shall be vested in a board of five trustees, to be appointed in the same manner and with the same powers and duties as are prescribed in the seventj'-third chapter of the General Statutes and all existing acts in addition thereto and modification thereof for the govern- ment of the state lunatic hospitals at Worcester, Taunton and Northampton. And all the provisions of said chap- ter and the acts in addition thereto and modification thereof, so far as the same can be made applicable, are herebj' extended and made applicable to the management of said state lunatic hospital at Danvers. Sect. 2. The trustees to be appointed under this act are hereby authorized to complete all necessary work not included in contracts made by the present commissioners ; and on the first day of October next, said trustees shall assume full and exclusive management and control of said hospital and all matters and contracts relating thereto ; and when said hospital is finished and ready to receive patients, give notice thereof to his excellency the gov- ernor and to the secretaiy of the board of state charities, and after the receipt of such notice patients may be com- mitted to said hospital, or transferred thereto from other hospitals or prisons, in the same manner as they may now be to either of the state lunatic hospitals. Sect. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved May 17, 1877. State luna- tic hospital at Danvers, appoint- ment of trustees; laws re- lating to other hos- pitals to apply to. G. S. 73. 1S62, 223. 1863, 240, §2. 1834, 288. 1865, 268. 1871, 321. 1873, 227, 275. 1874,25S,§2. 1874, 363. Trustees to complete work not included in contracts. When act takes effect. [Statutes 1877, chap. 227.] An Act establishing- an asylum for the chronic Section 1. There shall be established at Worcester a temporary asylum for the chronic insane, and so much of the land and buildings there situate heretofore used for a lunatic hospital, as the trustees thereof ma}' deem ne- cessaiy, is hereby appropriated for the use of such asylum. Sect. 2. The trustees of Worcester lunatic asylum are hereb}' invested with the same authority relative to the management and government of said asylum, the care of the inmates thereof, the custody of its funds, and the collection and disbursement of moneys for and on account of it, and to the same extent, as if the asylum was a part of said hospital: provided, however, that the inmates thereof shall consist onty of such chronic insane as may be transferred thereto by the board of state charities in the manner provided in section four of chapter two hun- Asylum for the chronic insane at Worcester ;a Gr. a. 73. to be in charge of trustees of Worcester hospital. Inmates to be sent by board of state chari- ties. 1863,240 §4.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21069669_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
