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Defects in the Working of the Lunacy Act, 1890

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

R. Percy Smith
R. Percy Smith*
Affiliation:
Bethlem Royal Hospital
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I feel greatly honoured by being allowed to open a discussion on the working of this Act; but as Bethlem admits more private cases in the year than any other institution in the kingdom, and as the chief alterations in the law concern the admission of private patients, it is perhaps appropriate that the discussion should be opened by someone resident at Bethlem. I feel I cannot do this better than by bringing before your notice facts which have occurred, and if in doing this I weary you, it will be merely a small reflection of the weariness we have experienced in the last six months from this new law.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 37 , Issue 156 , January 1891 , pp. 61 - 75
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1891

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Read before the Medico-Psycholgical Association, Nov. 20, 1890.

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