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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![G. S. 70,71. 72, 73, 75, 76. neo, c. 83. If 62, c. 189, 2i 3. IS 63, c. 184. U 64, o. 288, 2£0. 1S65, c. 162. 1866, c. 198, 209, 234, 235. 1867, c. 209, Counsel for insane person may visit client. [Statutes 1863, chap. 240.] The board of state charities shall investigate and supervise the whole system of the public charitable and correctional institutions of the Commonwealth, and shall recommend such changes and additional provisions as they may deem necessary for their economical and efficient administration. 243. 1872, 1869, c. 12, 258, 453,463. 1870, c. 92, 136, 359. 1871, c. 321, 324, 365, 370. 3. 45, 6S, 1S9, 349. 1873, c. 166, 262. 18/4, c. 121,170, 264, 363, 3S5. [Statutes 1879, chap. 195.] Sect. 4. Any counsellor at law, regnlarby retained as counsel by or on behalf of an} person committed to any lunatic hospital or asylum, or other receptacle for the in- sane, shall be admitted to visit such client at all reason- able times, if in the opinion of the superintending officer of such hospital, asylum or receptacle, such visit would not be injurious to such person, or if an}> judge of the supreme judicial, superior or probate court in any county shall first in writing; order that such visits be allowed. Inmates of lunatic asy- lums may write to certain persons. G. S. 73, 74. Duty of superin- tendents. Boxes for correspond- ence. PRIVILEGES OF LUNATICS AND THEIR GUARDIANS. [Statutes 1874, chap. 363.] Section 1. All persons confined as patients in the several lunatic asylums in this state shall be allowed to write monthby to the superintendent of the asylum in which the}7 are confined, also to the board of state chari- ties, and to the commissioners of lunacy, after their ap- pointment. Sect. 2. All patients in such asylums shall be fur- nished by the several superintendents with all materials necessaiy for such correspondence. And a locked box shall be placed in each ward, in which each writer may deposit his or her communication, said boxes to be opened and letters to be distributed monthly by some member of the board of state charities. Guardians may exer- cise right of election or waiver for wards. G. S.96, § 5. G. S. 109. 1861, 164. 102 Mass., [Statutes 1871, chap. 97.] An Act to confer certain rights upon guardians op insane persons and minors. When property rights or benefits given by will duly proved and allowed or by an}> provision of law, depend upon the election, waiver or other act of a person incom- petent b}* reason of insanity or minority to exercise or perform the same, the guardian of such person may make the election or waiver or perform such act. [March 11, 1871.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21069669_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
