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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    57, 68, 80, 81, 86, 87, 88, 93, 381, 383, 423, 464, 469, 474; m licensed houses, I. 103, 111, II. 127, 156, 274, 282, 304, 383, 478 ; in lunatic wards of poorhouses, 149, 150, 169, 170, 176, 492, 493; in Perth General Prison, 386; causes leading to, I. 84, 88; Sheriff Speirs' regulations as to record of, II. 528; no record kept, I. 85, 249, II. 381; abuse of, ought to he guarded against, 381, 383; Sheriff Alison's objections to, 381;_ women more frequently secluded than men, 383 ; little seclusion in Dum- fries Asylum, 513, SECRETAEY OF STATE, I. 21, II. 310, 315. SELKIEKSHIEE, number of insane and fatuous paupers in, I. 175; distribution of pauper lunatics of, 51, II. 29, 33, 36; idiots and lunatics not under the Sheriff's cognizance in, 34 ; those resident in, 35; expenditure in executing the Lunacy Acts, 241; dangerous lunatics in, 243. SESSION, COURT OF.—(See Court op Session.) SEXES, separation of, I. 101, 11. 274, 279, 282, 285, 414, 508. SHEPHERD HOUSE, Inveresk (Dr. Thomson's), II. 129; number of patients in, 1. 53. SHERIFFS, remits to, by Court of Session, when appointment of judicial factors is applied for, I. 9 ; powers and duties of, in re- gard to lunatics, 11-26, 129-131, 146, 214-218, 252, 253, v-viii, XX, xxvii; suggestions by the Commissioners on these points, 255 ; powers and duties of, (1.) as to the custody and treatment of the persons of lunatics, I. 11-27, v-viii, 130, 131, 198, II. 373; (2.) as to licensed houses, I. 11-27, 124, 153, 203, 214, 216-219, II. 300, 305, 306, 321-3, 328-332, 369, 370, 371, 402-405, 408, 471; (3.) as to pauper lunatics and poorhouses, I. 18, 129, 146, 167, 216, 249, 252, II. 331, 333, 334, 339, 349, 353; as to reported houses, 1. 151-3, 220, 251; as to dangerous lunatics, 22, 210, 212, 213, II. 373, 374, 481; warrants by—(see Warrants) ; classes of houses under, and not under, their cognizance, I. 45, 46 ; intima- tion of deaths in licensed houses, &c., to, 235, 236, II. 364, 372,404, 519; do not regularly transmit accounts to Commissioners of Supply, &c., I. 204; can compel counties to assess themselves for expense of executing the Lunacy Acts, 205; may decide that pauper lunatics shall be placed in a licensed house rather than in a public asylum, 206 ; generally have no cognizance of the removal of lunatics from their counties, 210, 253; may allow parish mini- sters to visit patients in asylums, 218; obstacle to any single Sheriff introducing an improved mode of procedure as to places in which lunatic paupers may be placed, 226; their powers as to lunatics, involved with those of Board of Supervision, 249, II. 349; particulars in which Sheriffs adopt different views and practices, I. 252 ; table of monies received by, for warrants and licenses, 240; expenditure in carrying Lunacy Acts into execution, 240,1. 20—(see Rogue-money) ; no notice to, when patients are to be discharged ■from licensed houses, II. 305, 321; their power of making regula- tions for licensed houses, I. 15, II. 306, 323, 370, 372 ; regulations by Sheriff Speirs, 527,1. 215—(see Speirs) ; suggestions by Sheriff Alison as to farther precautions and improved legal procedure at their granting warrants for the confinement of lunatics, II. 380;