Criminal lunatics : a letter to the Chairman of the Commissioners in Lunacy / by W. Charles Hood.

  • Hood, W. Charles (William Charles), 1824-1870.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Criminal lunatics : a letter to the Chairman of the Commissioners in Lunacy / by W. Charles Hood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    of State, upon receipt of such certificate, to direct by warrant under his hand, that such person shall be removed to such county lunatic asylum, or other proper receptacle for insane persons, as the said Secretary of State may judge proper and appoint; and every person so removed under this Act, or already removed, or in custody under any former Act relating to insane prisoners, whether repealed or not, shall remain under confinement in such county asylum, or other proper receptacle as aforesaid, or in any other county lunatic asylum, or other proper receptacle as to which such persons may be removed, or may have been already removed, or in which he may be in custody by virtue of any like order, until it shall be duly certified to one of Her Majesty’s principal Secretaries of State by two physicians or surgeons, or one physician and one surgeon, that such person has become of sound mind. Whereupon the said Secretary of State is hereby authorised, if such persons shall still remain subject to be continued in custody, to issue his warrant to the keeper or other person having the care of any such asylum or receptacle as aforesaid, directing that such person shall be removed back from thence to the prison or other place of confinement from whence he or she shall have been taken, or if the period of imprisonment or custody of such person shall have expired, that he or she shall be discharged, 3rd. If any prisoner shall appear on arraignment or during trial to be insane, or if on the trial of any prisoner evidenee be given that such prisoner was B 2