LUNACY LAW AGITATION AND SUICIDE.

Insanity and the Lunacy Law

A 'Scottish Poor Law of Lunacy'? Poor Law, Lunacy Law and Scotland's parochial asylums.

Scotland's parochial asylums are unfamiliar institutional spaces. Representing the concrete manifestation of the collision between two spheres of legislation, the Poor Law and the Lunacy Law, six such asylums were constructed in the latter half of the nineteenth century. These sites expressed the enduring mandate of the Scottish Poor Law 1845 over the domain of 'madness'. They were institutions...

Defects of the Lunacy Law

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The French Law of Lunacy

the surveillance of the public authorities. Article 4.?The Prefect, and those individuals specially nominated by him for that purpose, or by the minister of the interior, the president of the court, the king's advocate, the justice of the peace, the mayor of the division, are directed to visit the establishments, both private and public, dedicated to the service of the insane. They will receive...

Lunacy Law for Medical Men

Dr. Mercier's name is so well known in lunacy that we felt confident that a book dealing with the Lunacy Law from his hands would be valuable. This book, though small, is yet so excellent and systematic in its arrangement, and so lucid in the setting forth of its subject, that no medical man using it as his guide need doubt his ability to understand the Lunacy Act of 1890 so far as is necessary...