Seventeenth annual report of the managers of the Buffalo State Asylum for Insane for the year 1887.

  • Buffalo State Hospital
Date:
1888
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Credit: Seventeenth annual report of the managers of the Buffalo State Asylum for Insane for the year 1887. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Etreatment, according to the provisions of chapter 446 of the Laws of 11874. i I further certify that I have formed this opinion upon the following’ I grounds, viz.:* : *(Here insert facts upon which such opinion rests.) i. And I further declare that I possess the qualifications specified in iisection'2 of title 1 of chapter 446 of the Laws of 1874, and that my iqualifications as a medical examiner in lunacy have been duly attested , I jand certified by * i *(Here insert the name of the judge granting such certificate.) ! Sworn to and subscribed before me, ] I this day of , 188 . ) i I The judge’s certificate of qualification, the form of which we give ^below, need not be attached to the medical certificate, as the physi- ^cian makes oath to the fact of being qualified in each instance. It i may be retained by the physician or placed on file in the county clerk’s ^office. I JUDGE’S CEKTIFICATE OE QUALIFICATION. STATE OF NEW YORK, ) . r ss.. County of , ' I hereby certify that , of , is personally known to I me as a reputable physician, and is possessed of the qualifications ^ required by chapter 446 of the Laws of 1874. 1 These are the legal provisions for committing patients to the asylum, : so far as the question of their lunacy, and propriety of their care and ' treatment in such an institution, is concerned. As regards maintenanee, patients are of two classes, private. Publie patients are either pauper or indigent. The former are sent to : the asylum upon an order of commitment signed by a majority of the superintendents of the poor of the county in which they reside. Indi¬ gent patients are admitted upon a certificate of indigence, made by the county or special county judge, judge of a superior court, or com¬ mon pleas of the county where they reside. The statute, limiting a certificate of indigence to cases of insanity of only one year s duration, has been removed by a recent act (chapter 164, Laws of 1880). “ The object of this humane provision is undoubtedly to extend the benefits of this institution to persons of limited means, whose insanity is of recent date, and, therefore, probably curable, and if recovered, to restore them to their families and their property unimpaired, and save them from the paralyzing influence upon their future life of find-