Observations on the Statute 14 Geo. III c. 49, for regulating madhouses, and on the Bill now in progress through Parliament, for regulating the treatment of insane persons.

Date:
1828
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Credit: Observations on the Statute 14 Geo. III c. 49, for regulating madhouses, and on the Bill now in progress through Parliament, for regulating the treatment of insane persons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    between ihe lioiirs of eight and live in the day time, not less frequently than once in each year. From this visitation Public Hospitals for the re¬ ception of the insane, and pauper lunatics, are excepted. No Commissioner is to remain in office more than three years, and each year two of the board of Commissioners are to be changed for individuals who have not served the office during the preceding year. The duty of the Commissioners is, to appoint a Secretary for the purposes hereinafter mentioned: to grant licences to all persons who apply, without distinction; to visit the houses which they have licensed, and no others ; to prosecute those per¬ sons who receive more than one lunatic Avithout a licence; and to record Avhat thev find amiss in anv licensed house; and to extract such informa- tion, and no other, from their records, and to hang it up in the Censor’s Room in the College of Physicians, to be seen by all who may apply. No power either of refusing or revoking a licence is granted to them; no power of punish¬ ment; no power of exercising any magisterial authority; they are to visit, and find fault, but have no means of enforcing correction.
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