Anno quarto & quinto Victoriae Reginae. Cap. LX. An Act to alter and amend certain Acts regulating madhouses in Scotland; and to provide for the custody of dangerous lunatics.

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Date:
1841]
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Credit: Anno quarto & quinto Victoriae Reginae. Cap. LX. An Act to alter and amend certain Acts regulating madhouses in Scotland; and to provide for the custody of dangerous lunatics. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    shall be defrayed by the Party liable for the Expence of the Keeping and Maintenance of such furious or fatuous Person or Lunatic in the public Hospital, public Asylum, or licensed Mad¬ house from which he or she shall be so removed. VII. And be it enacted, That all Parish Paupers, furious or Parish fatuous Persons or Lunatics, to be confined under the Power PaVPef ky- • • ' iicities to be of the said recited Acts and this Act, shall be sent to a public confined in Hospital or public Asylum, unless the Sheriff, on Cause shown public to his Satisfaction, shall be of opinion, that in the special Cir-Hospitals* cumstances of the Case it is more expedient to commit any such Parish Pauper, furious or fatuous Person or Lunatic, to a licensed Madhouse. VIII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any If no public Sheriff, in whose County there shall be no public Hospital or^°^ital in public Asylum, to authorize the Confinement of any furious or the Sheriff ’ fatuous Person or Lunatic in a public Hospital or public may send Asylum or licensed Madhouse of any adjoining County : pro-Luna^c.s to vided always, that in the Case of a Parish Pauper, furious or p^g^'ounty. fatuous Person or Lunatic, proposed to be so sent to any licensed Madhouse, the Consent of the Sheriff of the County in which such licensed Madhouse is situated shall be first had and ob¬ tained thereto. IX. And be it enacted, That the Death of any furious or Death of fatuous Person or Lunatic in any licensed Madhouse shall,Lunatlc to within Twenty-four Hours after the same shall have happened, ted. be intimated in Writing by the Person keeping such Mad¬ house to the Sheriff of the County in which the same is situated, accompanied by a Certificate from the Medical Person who shall have attended such deceased Person, setting forth the Nature of the Disease occasioning the Death, how long such Disease had continued^ and when such Medical Per¬ son was first required to give special Attendance upon the Deceased, and how often he thereafter visited him or her ; and such Certificate shall also set forth whether any undue Delay had occurred in calling for the Assistance of such Medical Per¬ son ; and any Person, keeping or in the Care and Management of any licensed Madhouse, failing to make such Intimation, shall be liable in a Penalty not exceeding Twenty Pounds, and in default of Payment of such Penalty, the Defaulter shall be liable to Imprisonment, by Warrant of the Sheriff, for any Period not exceeding Three Calendar Months. X. And be it enacted, That in every licensed Madhouse Register to there shall be regularly kept a Book, to be intituled, “ Mad-bekept* house Register,’1' in which shall be distinctly set forth all the Particulars relating to every furious or fatuous Person orR .gter Lunatic who shall be received or detained in such Madhouse Book to be enumerated in the Schedule hereunto annexed. transmitted XL And be it enacted, That such Register Book, exhibiting (he* Sheriff- all Clerk.