Annual report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland : 4th 1862

  • Great Britain. General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland.
Date:
1862
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Credit: Annual report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland : 4th 1862. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS OF THE REPORT. INTRODUCTORY. Death of Dr. Cockburn, Influence of postponed Ewa in rota ding the eeeeusa of Aoetanist NUMBER OF INSANE. Increase in number, : : ° Number in Public hia eric Roeidcoe : : : ' Private Asylums, Lunatic Wards of oehanenns! of Single Patients, . : : Tabular Statement of Total Numbers, . DEFINITION OF LUNACY. Statutory Definition, Its inconveniences, Cases of Insane Pationts sartisied| by Parichial Medical Officers not to he Lunatics, Cases of Banc Eatienth in eeu mip te nih Ronen 6 fall wihin is Statutory Definition of Lunacy, Occasional difficulty of determining whether a Patient i in an “Asylam's is “Sante or Insane, with illustrative Case, Heavy Expense caused to Parishes by the procedure i in the case of Desieoninis Lunatics, with illustrative Cases, Sheriff’s Riles not a guarantee against Speaks in an sets on ES mal Certificates, Cases in I]lustration, Suggestion that the Sheriff ers as a podtien of course, gout his Order) _ leaving the Examination of the Medical Certificates to the Commissioners, Case in which such power might properly have been exercised, PROCEEDINGS OF DISTRICT BOARDS. Tabular Statement of the Number of Pauper Lunatics chargeable to the dif- ferent Districts, and of the manner of their disposal, in the four years _ from 1858-61, ; Present Position of the Dieciet of iAnerdoes ea ees Argyll, ooeees . Ayr, Pasnss Banff, of BF Bute, Sis Caithness, Wirass ess Dumfries, . shake’ Edinburgh, Elgin, PAGE xiv xvi ib. ib. XVii ib. ib. ib, ib. ib, XViii