2 County asy lums for. Metropolitan commissioners to report whether the provisions of the law are acted upon. To report as to any system of non-coercion; as to classification of patients; as to in-door and out-door amuse tions, and their effect; every asylum regulated under the provisions of the said last-mentioned act." in Sect. 31. "That such metropolitan commissioners shall, when so visiting such last-mentioned asylums, inquire, and shall by their reporti writing state, whether the provisions of the law have been carried out as to the construction of every such asylum, and as to its visitation and management, and also as to the regularity of the admissions and fibertions of patients therein and therefrom." Sect. 32. "That such metropolitan commissioners shall in like manner inquire and state whether any system of non-coercion, either in whole or in part, is in practice in every such asylum, and if so, the particulars of such system, and by what means practised, whether by medical treatment or otherwise, and what has been the result thereof." Sect. 33. "That such metropolitan commissioners shall also in like manner inquire into and state the classification or non-classification d patients in every such asylum, and the number of attendants on each class, and, so far as is practicable, the proportionate number of attend ants before and since the adoption of any system of non-coercion whi may have been adopted in such house."' Sect. 34. "That such metropolitan commissioners shall also in s ments and occupa- manner inquire into and state the occupations and amusements of the patients in every such asylum, and whether the same be in-door or outdoor occupations or amusements, and the effect of such occupations amusements, both in-door and out-door respectively, on the condita as well mental as bodily, of the patients." and as to condition of pauper patients when received into asylum, and the dietary; and to re port generally as to asylums and patients. Lists in form of made of patients in ginning of each discharged during each year. The reports to be signed and sent to clerk of commissioners. Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State, or either, may require metropolitan commissioners to visit and report as to royal military and naval hospi tals, and other every Sect. 35. "That such metropolitan commissioners shall also in manner inquire into and state the usual condition, as well me bodily, of the pauper patients when first received into asylum, and whether the condition has been such as to pre impede the ultimate recovery, either mental or bodily, of such part and also inquire into and state the dietary of the pauper p every such asylum; and such commissioners shall also as make such other inquiries as to every such asylum as a shall seem fit, and shall report thereon in writing, with such visits, as to every such asylum and the patients therein, as to such coRIS shall seem meet." Sect. 36. "That such metropolitan commissioners shall, when scat ing as aforesaid each asylum regulated under the provisions of the s last-mentioned act, require to be produced to him a correct list, acc ing to the form in Schedule (B., post, 1270), annexed to this act of the number of patients in each asylum on the first day of January year, the number admitted between such first day of January year and the first day of the following year, and the number of p discharged as cured or relieved, and the number discharged as lieved, and the number who have died during the same period, and transmit such list to the clerk of the metropolitan commissioners." Sect. 37. "That the report so made and the list so drawn upasse said, as to each and every asylum so regulated under the provis the said last-mentioned act, shall be signed by the commissioners ing such asylum, and shall be delivered to the clerk of the metrop commissioners, who shall enter the same in a book to be kept by a for that purpose." Sect. 38. "And whereas it may be desirable, with a view general amelioration as aforesaid, that inspection should also be the royal military and naval hospitals, and all other (if any) asylums, other than the county asylums aforesaid, for the rece insane persons, excepting the royal hospital of Bethlem, and that petent persons should be appointed for that purpose; be it enacted the Lord Chancellor, or other the person or persons so intrested aforesaid, and her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Home 2. County asyDepartment, or either of them, if they or he shall think fit, may, by an lums for. instrument under their or his hand and seal, require the metropolitan public lunatic commissioners in lunacy to visit any such last-mentioned hospitals and asylums. asylums, excepting the royal hospital of Bethlem, and to report as to the state and condition thereof respectively, and the system of treatment therein adopted, in such manner as they or he shall think fit; and that thereupon two or more of the metropolitan commissioners, one of whom at least shall be a physician or surgeon, and one of whom at least shall be a barrister commissioner, shall have full power and authority to, and shall, at such time, and at such reasonable hours of the day, and for such length of time as they shall think fit, visit each and every such hospital and asylum, and report thereon, as so required." For the remaining enactments of the statute, see post, 1292 et seq. Schedules referred to in 9 Geo. IV. c. 40. 66 lu (1.) Form of agree. ment for uniting counties or lunatic asylums maintain ed by voluntary contributions, las It is agreed, this day of -, by and between the committees of justices of the peace severally appointed for the county [or, "committee of subscribers," as the case may be] of to treat for the uniting of the said counties, [or, natic asylum," as the case may be], for the purposes of an act passed in the ninth year of his Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled, An Act [here insert the the case may be], of title of this act], that the said counties, &c., [as the case may be], shall from hence- and, for forth be united for the purposes of the said act, and adopt, in all respects, the providing a lunatic the purpose of provisions, rules, orders, and regulations, and comply with all the requisites prescribed asylum, or house by the said act for counties [as the case may be] uniting for those purposes; and that a county lunatic asylum, or house for the reception of lunatics and other insane persons, with all necessary buildings, courts, yards, and outlets, shall be immediately provided at or near, and properly fitted up and accommodated for the purposes mentioned in the said act; and that the necessary expenses attending upon the providing, building, fitting up, repairs, and maintenance of the said county lunatic asylum, shall be defrayed by the said county or counties and lunatic asylum so united, in the following proportions: (that is to say), The county of -, four-ninths of the said expenses. The lunatic asylum of - shall ap shall appoint -, two-ninths of the same, [or as the case may be]. And we do further agree, that the committee of visitors to superintend the building, erection, and management of the said county lunatic asylum, shall be formed in the following proportion: the justices of the peace for the said county of point ~; the justices of the peace for the county of the subscribers to the lunatic asylum of the undersigned justices of the peace, being the major part of each of the committees of justices for the said several counties; and we, the undersigned, being the major part of the committee of subscribers to the lunatic asylum; do, on the part and behalf of the said counties and lunatic asylum, set our hands and seals, this day of in the year shall appoint We, of his Majesty's justices of the peace, and chairman of the Court of quarter sessions of the peace of the county, &c. of· [as the case shall be], holden at the day of - and , two other of his Majesty's justices of the peace acting for the said county, &c. and assembled in the said Court, in pursuance of the powers to us given by an act passed in the ninth year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled, An Act [here insert the title of this act], do hereby, in open Court, mortgage and charge all the rates to be raised within the said county, &c. [as the case may be], under the description of county rates, with the payment of the sum of which of· hath proposed and agreed to lend, and hath now actually advanced and paid towards defraying the expenses of purchasing lands for building, repairing, &c. [as the case shall be], the county lunatic asylum for the said county, &c. [or, "the united counties of &c.," as the case may be], and we do hereby confirm and establish the same unto the said his executors, administrators, and assigns, for securing the repayment of the said sum for the reception of insane persons, pursuant to the statute 9 Geo. 4, c. 40. 2. County asylums for. (3). Form of warrant. (4). Form of return (a). of ——, and interest for the same after the rate of —— per centum per annum, and do order the treasurer for such county, &c. [or other person, as the case shal be], to pay the interest of the said sum of half-yearly, as the same shall become due, until the principal shall be discharged, pursuant to the directions of the said act. To the overseers of the poor of the parish of ——, in the county of ——, to wi day of in the year of our Lord A true list of all lunatics and dangerous idiots within the parish or prest in the county of, specifying the name, sex, and age of each hunaric est idiot, and whether such lunatics be dangerous or otherwise, and for what length of time such lunatics have been disordered in their senses, and where confined, or im otherwise disposed of. (5). Form of warrant (a). before Sworn by, overseers of the poor of the said parish of - Whereas it appears to us, of his Majesty's justices of the pecs fur county of, having called to our assistance, a physician, [ar, or, "apothecary," as the case may be], that ——, chargeable to the parul in the said county, is lunatic [“ insane," or, "a dangerous idiot," as the cast be] (b), you are hereby directed to cause the said — to be conveyed to the county (a) These forms are in the schedule to 9 Geo. IV. c. 40. (b) If the order is under s. 42, ante, 1255, here say, "And whereas it also appears to us that the place of le ! lunatic asylum established at [or, "to the house of —"], situate at in the county of- the said house being a house duly licensed for the reception of day of -. 3. Private asylums. in the said county, and To the overseers of the poor of the parish of to every of them. It being made known to me, J. P., one of her Majesty's justices of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, that one P. P., a poor person, chargeable to the said parish of in the said county, is deemed to be insane: I, the said justice, do, therefore, order and require you, the said overseers, or some or one of you, to bring the said P. P. before J. P. and K. P., two of her Majesty's justices of the peace for the said county, on —————, at —, or before any two other of her said Majesty's justices of the peace who may then and there be present. Given under my hand and seal, the day of in the year of our Lord. in the county of bearing date the day To the overseers of the poor of the parish of · Whereas in pursuance of an order under the hand and seal of J. P., esquire, one of her of one P. P, a poor Now we, the said in the year of our Lord- -, the overseers of the poor of the parish of · in the said county of· now bring before us, J. P. and K. P., esquires, two of her said Majesty's justices of the peace for the said county of person, chargeable to the said parish, who is deemed to be insane. J. P. and K. P., justices as aforesaid, having called to our assistance one S. S., a surgeon, are, upon view and examination of the said P. P., and from other proof, satisfied that the said P. P. is insane; and having now, in pursuance of the statute in such case made and provided, inquired into the place of the last legal settlement of the said P. P., and heard evidence thereupon, we the said J. P. and K. P., justices as aforesaid, do adjudge that the lawful settlement of the said P. P. is in the said parish of - in the county of · aforesaid; and we, J. P. and K. P., justices as aforesaid, having by our order of this date directed that the said P. P. should be conveyed to the county lunatic asylum established at- [or, "to the house of· situate at the said house being a house duly licensed for the reception of insune persons"], do hereby order the overseers of the said parish of to pay unto the sum of - -, being the reasonable charges for conveying the said P. P. to the said county lunatic asylum [or, “licensed house"], and also the sum of · weekly and every week, to the treasurer of the said county lunatic asylum [or, to the keeper of the said licensed house, for the maintenance, clothing, and care of the said P. P., which he the said keeper is willing to accept, and which is a reasonable charge in that behalf."] Given under our hands and seals this day of - A. D.. Order under 9 Geo. 4, c. 40, s. 38, ment and expenses of the pauper. as to the settle By stat. 2 & 3 Will. IV. c. 107, intituled, "An Act for regulating for 2 & 3 Will. 4, Three Years, and from thence until the End of the then next Session of Par- c. 107. liament, the Care and Treatment of Insane Persons in England (b), (11th (a) This form is in the schedule to 9 Geo. IV. c. 40. (b) The 5 & 6 Will. IV. c. 22, continues for three years, and from thence to the end of the then next session of Parliament, the 2 & 3 Will. IV. c. 107, and 3 & 4 Will. IV. c. 64. The 1 Vict. 2. County asy- of ——, and interest for the same after the rate of 3. Form of warrant (4). Form of return (a). To the overseers of the poor of the po necessar apothe this the the the provivisitors, and of ted acts, shall contisand things at any time vely under the said recited jod, valid, and effectual, to al cited acts had not been repealed, sitors and clerks had been appointed pecially altered by this act as to the vi ▲ as, in order to avoid unnecessary repetiti a to the meaning of certain words in this act, be word county shall be deemed to include any ision of the county of Lincoln, liberty, county of a town, city, cinque port, or town corporate; that the shall be deemed to include any township, hamlet, v -parochial place, or place maintaining its own poor; tha county rate' shall be deemed to include any funds ad aised in or belonging to any county, riding, division of the of Lincoln, liberty, county of a city, county of a town, or town corporate, in the nature of county rates, and applica purposes to which county rates are applicable; that the word ♫ shall be deemed to include all justices, physicians, sur spothecaries appointed at a general or adjourned quarter sessions ta vas houses of reception for two or more insane persons; that the w sane persons shall be deemed and construed to extend to who are idiot, lunatic, or of unsound mind; that the words as palle per' shall be deemed to include every person sent to and mad at house licensed under this act, wholly or in part at the exped any parish; that the word 'proprietor' shall be deemed to include every person exercising any superintending or proprietary duties in any licensed under this act; that the words clerk of the peace deemed to include any person acting as such, or any deputy day pointed; that the word physician' shall be deemed to include any low or licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in London; that the word 'surgeon' shall be deemed to include any member of the Br College of Surgeons in London; and that the word 'apothecary h deemed to include any person authorized to practise as such under an a passed in the fifty-fifth year of the reign of his late Majesty King Gy the Third, intituled, An Act for the better regulating the Practice f thecaries throughout England and Wales, or under an act passed d 4, c. 133, (a). sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourt i tituled, An Act to amend and explain the said Act of the F 3, c. 194. any Year of his late Majesty; and the words treasurer of the co be deemed to include any officer who has the custody of any sessed upon or raised in or belonging to any county, riding, disa f the county of Lincoln, liberty, county of a city, county ef the end of the then next session of Par liament. The 3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 36, and 5 & 6 of proceeding under them, and dan the nature of writs de lunatico inqui-pired; see tit. "Physicians," rendo, and to the practice and course p. 542. |