LUNACY LAW REFORM.

Lunacy Reform

^JNDER this title there has recently been issued the report of the proceedings at a conference convened by Sir Frederick Willis, Chairman of the Board of Control, at which there were present Commissioners of the Board, Chairmen of Visiting Committees and Medical Superintendents of County and Borough Mental Hospitals. They met to consider " in what directions lunacy administration and the treatm...

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...

Insanity and the Lunacy Law

Defects of the Lunacy Law

(Correspondence on all subjects is invited, but we cannot in any way be responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents. No communication can be entertained if the name and address of the correspondent are not given as a guarantee of good faith, buS not necessarily for publication. All correspondents should write on one side of the paper only, and we cannot find space for very long...

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...