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 1862, chap. 223.] Sect. 2. The lands now holclen, and which may here- after be holclen, by the trustees of any state lunatic hos- pital, in trust for the Commonwealth, for the use of the institution of which the}' are trustees, shall not be taken for anj' street, highway, or railroad, without leave of the legislature specially obtained. Sect. 12. It shall be the official duty of the attorney- general and district attorneys to advise and consult with the trustees and treasurers of the several state lunatic hospitals, when requested by them, on all questions of law relating to their official business. [Statutes 1864, chap. 288.] Sect. 8. The governor and council ma}' license any suitable person to establish and keep an asylum or private house for the reception and treatment of insane persons, and may at any time revoke such license. And such asylum or private house shall be subject to visitation by the governor and council*, or any committee thereof, and by the judge of the probate court of the county wherein the same is situated. Sect. 9. Whoever establishes or keeps such an asylum or private house without a license, unless otherwise author- ized by law, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. State luna- tic hospi- tals, lands of, not to be taken for streets, &c. G. S. 73. Attorney- general and district at- torneys to advise with trustees. G. 8. 14, §§ 22, 31. Private asy- lums for insane per- sons to be licensed, penalty for keeping without license. COUNTY RECEPTACLES FOR INSANE PERSONS. [General Statutes, chap. 74.] Section 1. There shall be in each county within the precincts of the house of correction, or if in the judgment of the county commissioners it cannot be conveniently provided within the same, then in some other building or buildings to be deemed a part of the house of correction, a convenient apartment or receptacle for the confinement of insane persons not furiously mad. Sect. 2. The county commissioners of the county of Essex shall appoint a superintendent and matron for the receptacle in that county, and all persons confined therein shall be under the care and custody of said superintendent; who shall keep a record of all commitments and discharges, and receive a reasonable compensation for his services. Said county shall have the same remedies for the expenses of the care and support of such persons, as are provided for keepers and masters of houses of correction for the main- tenance of prisoners committed to houses of correction. priation accessible to all the hospitals, and now amounting to one hundred and ten thousand dollars a year; second, the board paid by cities and towns for their patients; and, third, the higher rate of board paid by private patients. Other sources of income are special appropriations for maintenance (for 1879 twenty thousand dollars at Danvers), the interest on funds, and deficiency or other special appropriations. County re- ceptacles for insane persons, &c, to be provided, | &c. 1836,223, §1. 1842, 100, §§ 1. 2. 5 Met., 54. Special pro- visions for the county of Essex. R. S. 143, §16. 1846,154, §2.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21069669_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
