Lunacy Law of 1883 : as amended by the Act of May 7, 1889, and as further amended by a supplement passed at the General Assembly of 1893 ; also an Act to provide for the better protection of female insane patients in transit; the same as amended by the Act of May 27, 1897 ; an amendment to an act to provide for the commitment of persons habitually addicted to the use of alcoholic drugs, etc. ... an act to provide for the employment of the insane / Committee on Lunacy, State of Pennsylvania.

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Date:
1907
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Credit: Lunacy Law of 1883 : as amended by the Act of May 7, 1889, and as further amended by a supplement passed at the General Assembly of 1893 ; also an Act to provide for the better protection of female insane patients in transit; the same as amended by the Act of May 27, 1897 ; an amendment to an act to provide for the commitment of persons habitually addicted to the use of alcoholic drugs, etc. ... an act to provide for the employment of the insane / Committee on Lunacy, State of Pennsylvania. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    the committee on lunacy, and if the judge shall be satisfied that the person confined requires treatment in a hospital, he shall thereupon direct the removal of the said person from the gaol or prison to a state hospital, which order shall be executed by the sheriff of the county, or his deputy, and the actual expenses of such removal and the expense of maintaining the person in the hospital, shall be paid by the county liable for the maintenance of the said person in the gaol or prison from which he is removed. Section 30. The trustees, manager and physicians of any hospital in which a criminal is confined by order of any court, or in which a lunatic has been committed after an acquittal of crime, shall not dis- charge, release, or remove the prisoner or lunatic without the order of a court of competent jurisdiction, and in case such lunatic, whether a convict or acquitted, is not set at large, but is to be removed to any place of custody other than a hospital, the order for removal shall not be made without notice to the committee on lunacy, and time given them to investigate the case and he heard on the application. Section 31. All persons that have been detained as insane, (other than criminal insane, duly convicted and sentenced by a court), shall, as soon as they are restored to reason and are competent to act for themselves, in the opinion of the medical attendant of the house, be forthwith discharged, and any person so detained shall at all times be entitled to a writ of habeas corpus for the determination of this question, and on the hearing, the respondent in that writ shall be required to pay the costs and charges of the proceedings, unless the judge shall certify that there was sufficient ground in his opinion to warrant the detehtion and put the petitioner to his writ. In case the discharged patient be in indigent circumstances, such person shall be furnished with necessary raiment and with funds sufficient for sustenance and travel to his home, to be charged to the county from which such patient was committed. Section 32. The committee on lunacy shall be notified of all dis- charges within seven days thereafter, and a record of the same shall be kept by the committee. Section 33. The committee on lunacy may, at any time, order anil compel the discharge of any person detained as insane, (other than a person committed after trial and conviction for crime, or by order of court), but such order shall not be made unless notice be given to the person having charge of the building in which the patient is de- tained, and to the person or persons at whose instance the patient is detained, and reasonable opportunity given them to justify a further detention, and the committee shall not sign an order of discharge un- less they have personally attended and examined the case of the pa- tient. Section 34. A supplement to an act relative to the supervision and