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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    184, xv-xviii, 348; waiTants for confinement of lunatics in, 320, 407; need much supervision, 333; Board of Supervision's duties respecting, 348-9 ; licensing of lunatic wards in, 351 ; visits of Sheriff Alison to, 376 ; his opinion of them as places of confine- ment for lunatics, 378; his suggestion of the expediency of esta- hlishing the lunatic departments of them as district asylums, 382; thought inferior to asylums by Dr. Coates, 384; by Dr. Skae, 428, 432, 434 ; by Dr. Christison, 488 ; and by Dr. Browne, 520; Dr. Skae's opinion that, at all events, only imbeciles should be kept in them, 434; Sheriff's jurisdiction in regard to, 40G.— (See Parochial Boards ; Pauper Lunatics.) POPULATION, ratio of insane to, I. 38 ; unequal increase of, in different parts of Scotland since census of 1801, 40, 41; the small- est proportion of insane paupers is found where it increases rapidly, 43. POETEOTJS, Mr. William, clerk in the Sheriff-Clerk's OfiSce, Edin- burgh, evidence of, II. 458. POETSOY, case of a lunatic at, I. 187. POVERTY promotes insanity, L 83. PEEGNANT WOMEN seldom refused admittance into chartered asylums, I. 99 ; why refused at Glasgow Asylum, II. 461 ; not re- fused at Dumfries Asylum, but right of refusal possessed, 501, 502 ; imbecile women often become pregnant, 1. 37, 185, 186, 250, 11. 34, 334, 350, 358, 365, 458. PEISONS, lunatics in, I. 153-166, xxii-xxiii, 212 ; number of, and accommodation for, lunatics in, 46, 51; improper detention ot lunatics in, 250, 254, IL 419, 507, 524; number of hisane prison- ers confined in local prisons for each of five years ended 30th June 1856, 529. ^ ^ , PEISON, GENEEAL, at Perth.—(See Perth General Prison.] PEISON BOAEDS, COUNTY, IL 308, 317. , . PEISON BOAED, GENEEAL, its powers and duties as to criminal lunatics, I. 26, 220, IL 307, 312; number of imprisoned criminal lunatics reported to, I. 164; Has it not the power of disposal ot criminal lunatics? 160. ^„ « PEIVATB HOUSES for the insane, I. 11-21, 99-128, 247-9, v-vii, xvi-xx, II. 104-148 ; number of lunatics in, I. 31, 45, c»4.—(bee Asylums; Insane Persons; Licensed Houses; Sheriffs; Un- licensed Houses.) r „4-„f„ PEIVIES in chartered asylums, I. 82 ; theu- unsatisfactory state m some licensed houses, 109, IL 119, 139, 140, 144, 400. PEOCUEATOES-FISCAL, their duties as to ^langerous lunatics, i. 10, 22,153,198,212, 213, IL 318, 330, 373, 378,406,420,4o0,451, 456 480 481, 483 ; their procedure not uniform, 1. 254; now re- munerated, IL 456, 483, 484 ; may apply to Sheriff for wai-rant to remove patients, 1. 18 ; charged with the enforcement and due execution of the Lunacy Acts, 19; penalties recovered by h m to be paid into the rogue-money, 20; suggestion by Sheriff Huntei that penalties should be sued for by the Lord Advocate, II. 451, 456 ; cases sent to asylums by, are sometimes rejected i. jy, tneu duties at liberation of criminal lunatics, 162, II. 317, ' ' proceedings, if complaint were made of neglect of lunatics to, 408, lu