Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. V., cap. 38) : regulations.

  • Great Britain. Scottish Office.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. V., cap. 38) : regulations. 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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    (/) Immediate notice in writing of tlie outbreak of any infec- tious disease and its nature. {g) Within eight clear days copies of every entry made in the patient’s book by any Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner or Member of a District Board of Control. (h) If required correct copies of all the entries, or of any particular entries or entry, in any official book relative to any specified patient who is, or may have been, resident. (i) Not less than 14 days before the expiration of the order or authority under which a patient is detained, the special reports and certificate required under Sections 12 and 13 of the Act for the consideration of the Board as to the continuance of the order or authority. (y) At the end of every quarter a copy of every entry made in the register of restraint or seclusion during the quarter. (A) Notice of any other matter as the Board may from time to time direct. 90. The superintendent shall within three days of the death of a patient send, or cause to be sent, a notice of such death together with a statement relating thereto— {a) To the Board; together with a copy of any information sent to the Procurator Fiscal; (h) To the relative or one of the relatives named in the statement accompanying the order for the reception of the patient, or, if none be known, to the person at whose instance the patient was detained or who made the last payment for the patient’s maintenance; (c) To the registrar of deaths for the district; (d) To the Procurator Fiscal in the case of sudden death or death from accident provided that such notice shall be sent immediately; (e) If the patient was chargeable to a Parish Council or a School Board to the Inspector of Poor or the Clerk of the School Board, and to the Clerk of the District Board of Control. 91. The superintendent shall wlien any patient attains the age of twenty-one years (or as near that age as the information at his disposal enables him to judge) send or cause to be sent within 14 days to the Board notice in writina’ of such fact, together with the special report of the Medical Officer required by Section 12 of the Act. Registers to be kept in every Certified Institution and Certified House. 92. The superintendent of every Certified Institution or Certi- fied House shall keep, in such form as the Board may from time to time direct— (a) a register of admissions; (h) a register of removals, transfers and discharges; (c) a register of deaths;