Voluntary patients in asylums / by Stanley Haynes.

  • Haynes, Stanley.
Date:
[1869]
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    more of the Commissioners, or in the case of a house licensed by justices of.two or more of the visitors, to entertain and keep in such house as a boarder for such time as may be specified in the assent any person who may have been within five years immediately preceding the giving of such assent a patient in any asylum, hospital or licensed house or under care as a single patient. 3. Definitions of Licensed House, Asylum, and Registered Hospital, Vide 8 & 9 Vict., c. 100, s. cxiv. 'Licensed House' shall mean a house licensed under the provisions of this Act or of some Act hereby repealed for the reception of lunatics. (2 & 3 W. IV , c 107 ; 3 & 4 W. IV., c. 64 ; S & 6 W. IV., c. 22 ; 1 & 2 Vict., o. 73 ; 5 Vict., o. 4 ; 5 & 6 Vict., c. 87.) ' Asy- lum ' shall mean any lunatic asylum .... for the care and mainten- ance of pauper and criminal lunatics in England. ' Hospital,' shall mean any hospital or part of an hospital or other house or institution (not being an asylum) wherein lunatics are received, and supported wholly or partly by voluntary contributions, or by any charitable bequest or gift, or by applying the excess of payments of some patients for or towards the support provision or benefit of other patients. SCHEDULE A, FORM OF WISH TO BECOME A BOARDEE. I, A JB., of occupation, desire to reside in your establishment as a boarder, and hereby agi-ee to abide by any regulations you may impose on me, provided that I can terminate such boardership by giving you not less than three clear days' written notice of my intention to leave. Dated this day of 18 A. B. Witness, C. D. To Superintendent (or Proprietor) of SCHEDULE B. FORM OF NOTICE OF INTENTION TO LEAVE. I, A. B., now a boarder under your supervision, hereby give you notice of my intention to leave your establishment, and to resume my perfect liberty on the day of 18 . And I hereby exonerate you from all responsibility and consequences respecting such cessation of your supervision over me. Dated this day of 18 . A. B. To Superintendent (or Proprietor) of SCHEDULE C. FORM OF NOTICE OF RECEPTION OP BOARDER. I hereby give you notice that A. B. of {occupation) was received into this establishment as a boarder on the day of _ 18 , and I hereby transmit a copy of the request on which he was received. Dated this day of 18 E. F. Superintendent (or Proprietor) of To the Commissioners in Lunacy,