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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![and care of any city or town in which he may have a legal settlement. The expense of so providing for such lunatic or insane person shall be reimbursed in the same manner, and recovered by the same remedies as are pro- vided in the sixteenth section of the forty-eighth chapter of the Revised Statutes. [Statutes 1840, chap. 79.] Section 1. Whenever it shall be made to appear, on application, in writing, to the police court of the city of Boston, that any person is insane, not being furiously mad, and is either chargeable or likely to become charge- able to the city or the state ; or, being furiously mad, has his legal settlement in and is chargeable to said city, the said police court are hereby authorized to order the confinement of such person in the said Boston lunatic hospital, saving to the person complained against the right to appeal from such order to the municipal court of the city of Boston, as is now allowed from other judg- ments of said police court, by law. And, upon his appeal, the question of his sanity shall, upon his request there- for, be tried Iry a jury in said court. If, on such appeal, it shall be made to appear that such person is insane as aforesaid, and is, or is likely to be, chargeable as afore- said, the said municipal court shall affirm the judgment of the said police court, with additional costs, and issue a warrant for his commitment according to law ; otherwise such person shall be discharged. Sect. 2. Any person who shall apply for the commit- ment of any lunatic, under the provisions of the preced- ing section, shall first give notice in writing to the mayor of the city of Boston, of his intention to make such application ; and satisfactory evidence that such notice has been given shall be produced to the said police court, at the time of making such application. And the said police court may order any further notice of such appli- cation to be given to the person complained of, or to any other person or persons in his behalf, as they shall deem to be necessary or reasonable. Sect. 3. Any person committed to said hospital by either of the courts as aforesaid, and any person who ma}T be confined in said hospital, upon his removal from the state lunatic hospital, as provided in the sixth sec- tion of the act, to which this is in addition, may at any time be discharged therefrom b}T the maj-or and aldermen of the said city of Boston, whenever the cause of con- finement shall have ceased to exist, or when, in the opinion of the said mayor and aldermen, such discharge would be for the benefit of the person so confined, or when in their opinion such person would be comfortably supported by any parent, kindred, friends, master or Insane per- sons may be sent to the hospital by order of po- lice court, saving the right of appeal to municipal court, &c. Persons applying for com- mitment of lunatics to give notice to mayor. concerning discharging persons confined in the hospital.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21069669_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
