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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![guardian, or by any town or city in which such person ma}' have a legal settlement. And said mayor and alder- men, whenever in their opinion such lunatic or insane person can in such manner be more comfortably provided for, and the safety of the public will not be endangered thereb}*, may provide for his custody and support in other places than in said hospital, the said lunatic or insane person still continuing subject to the order and direction of the said mayor and aldermen ; or, said mayor and aldermen may deliver him to the custody and care of any city or town in which he ma}r have a legal settlement. The expense of so providing for such lunatic or insane person shall be reimbursed in the same manner and re- covered by the same remedies as are provided in the sixteenth section of the fortj'-eighth chapter of the Re- vised Statutes. Repeal of Sect. 4. So much of the one hundred and thirty-first act of April chapter of the statutes of the year one thousand eight 8,1839. hundred and thirty-nine, as relates to the commitment of persons to the said Boston lunatic hospital, by the judge of the municipal court of the city of Boston, and to their discharge therefrom by him, is hereby repealed ; but all orders of the said judge relating thereto, and rendered prior to the time this act shall take effect, shall remain in full force. 1840, 79. Receptacle for insane criminals to be provided at Tewks- bury alms- house. G. S. 71, §§ 32-57. Who may be commit- ted there, or removed there. G. S. 172, §14. G-. S. 180, §§ 4, 5. 1862, 223, §17- [Acts of 1857, chap. 35.] Sect. 2. The said board of directors shall also have the same powers, as to the discharge of insane persons from confinement, as are now vested in the mayor and aldermen of said city. [Statutes 1864, chap. 288.] Ax Act relatixg to insane persons and lunatic hos- pitals. Sect. 10. There shall be established on the lands con- nected with the state almshouse at Tewksbury a receptacle for insane criminals, to which shall be removed all per- sons now in the state lunatic hospitals, whom the board of state charities shall deem to be fit subjects therefor. Any insane person who may be committed to one of the state lunatic hospitals under the provisions of the four- teenth section of the one hundred and seventy-second chapter of the General Statutes, or of the seventeenth section of the two hundred and twenty-third chapter of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, may, at the discretion of the court, be committed to the said receptacle under such limitations as the court ma}T direct. And the judges of the superior and probate courts may cause convicts who are insane to be removed from any prison or house of correction to the said receptacle, in the same manner that such convicts may now be removed to one of the state lunatic hospitals. But no person shall](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21069669_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
