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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![within the county buildings an}r lunatic who is a town tract for pauper, without first obtaining the approbation in writing fn^nepau- of the commissioners; and for every offence against this £ergs'4fc;12 provision such keeper shall forfeit a sum not less than one hundred dollars. Sect. 11. In cases arising under sections four and Fees of eight, all magistrates, officers, and witnesses shall receive &ogls ra es' the same fees as are allowed by law for like services in 1836,223,§4. criminal proceedings, to be taxed, allowed, and paid, in like manner. THE BOSTON LUNATIC HOSPITAL. [General Statutes, chap. 74.] Sect. 12. Nothing contained in this chapter or in Boston chapter seventy-three shall repeal any provisions of law hospital, specially relating to the Boston lunatic hospital, or the ]839> isi. confinement, care, and support of insane persons therein. 185L243. [The act of 1879, chap. 195, repealed chap. 281 of 302.' the acts of 1857, authorizing the city of Boston to re- 355, §1.' ceive insane persons into the Boston Lunatic Hospital without commitment by a magistrate. Chap. 302 of the acts of 1857, putting the Boston Hospital on the same footing with the State Hospitals in respect to commit- ments, remains unrepealed ; and the same seems to be true of the earlier statutes (131 of 1839, and 79 of 1840) which established the Boston Lunatic Hospital, in place of the County Receptacle for Suffolk County, established under chap. 223 of the Acts of 1836. This earlier act provided for a suitable and convenient apartment or receptacle for idiots and lunatics or insane persons not furiously mad, within the precincts of the house of cor- rection in each county of this Commonwealth. By a later act (chap. 100 of 1842) the count}' commissioners were authorized to provide such an apartment or recep- tacle at any place out of the precincts of the house of correction. Chap. 35 of 1857 gives to the Board of Directors for Public Institutions the same power of dis- charge from the Boston Hospital, as chap. 79 of 1840 gave to the mayor and aldermen.] [Statutes 1839, chap. 131.] Section 1. The city council of the city of Boston are city council hereb}7 authorized to erect and maintain a hospital, for ^0Uer°ctZed the reception of insane persons not furiously mad ; and hospital.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21069669_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
