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Lunacy Law and Institutional and Home Treatment of the Insane

Being the Final of a Course of Lectures on Psychiatry for Local Secretaries of Mental Welfare Associations delivered at Horton Mental Hospital, Epsom, October, 1922

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

J. R. Lord
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The Lecturer, after having briefly epitomised the provisions of the Lunacy Act of 1890, continued as follows: It will thus be readily seen that the chief aims of this Act are to secure (1) That no person is received as a patient into a mental hospital or other approved place unless of a certainty he is a lunatic within the meaning of the Lunacy Act, i.e., an idiot or a person of unsound mind, etc. (2) That a person so admitted shall be discharged immediately he is no longer certifiable as a person of unsound mind and a proper person to be detained under care and treatment. (3) That he is not ill-treated or neglected while under detention. (4) That in case of his death in the mental hospital the cause and circumstances thereof are the subject of special report and possibly searching inquiry.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 69 , Issue 285 , April 1923 , pp. 155 - 162
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1923 

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