Report by Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of lunatic asylums in Scotland : and the existing law in reference to lunatics and lunatic asylums in that part of the United Kingdom. With an appendix.

  • Scotland. Royal Lunacy Commission.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Report by Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of lunatic asylums in Scotland : and the existing law in reference to lunatics and lunatic asylums in that part of the United Kingdom. With an appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In all cases of coercion or restraint, beyond solitary ^Q„g°o(i^*j^' confinement, an entry shall be made in the book on the Treatmentof day on which the restraint commences, setting forth its Persoii. nature andspecial cause; and a further entryshall bemade Registers, on each succeeding day, during its continuance, showing the progress of the disorder, and how far such coercion or restraint has been increased, diminished, continued, or put an end to, and the reasons of such continuance or change. This book must be produced to the Inspectors on their visits, who are required to mark on it the date of the inspection, together with any observations they may deem material on the state of the house, or of any of the patients ; and any keeper of such house ne- glecting to keep such book, or to make the required entries therein, or who shall refuse or neglect to produce it Avhen duly required, is liable in a penalty of £5 for each olFenqe. In every licensed mad-house, an additional book Mad-house must be kept called the Mad-house Register, setting ^g'^*^''-. forth the particulars specified in the following schedule. iTo^^^ SCHEDULE. Form of Register to be kept in all Licensed Mad-houses in Scotland. S 2 ..a 3 S a to o ti! s -5 o -t^ ■a 3 to 'Ji ° 3 ffl js a; 01 o to C3 as O d <D.° CO 3 14 a. , 'a 0) i V u ' a _ -u a o « iS .a 13 -3 « a S —. Qj uj n o o ? a, > 13 P .„ tn o a ^ _ =^ o 'a p « 3 05 o <u o d 5 rh|s register is appointed to be transmitted to the .SherifF-clerk ot the county, on or before the 51.t day of January, annually, or, in the event of the house beino- B