THE LUNACY COMMISSION.

Commission in Lunacy

Edgar Barker, of Edgeware-road, surgeon, examined by Mr. Baily.? Am a member of the College of Surgeons; know Mr. Henry Keith Stewart; liave attended him professionally ten or twelve years. He had epileptic fits. The effect produced was gradual destruction of his mental capacity; it now amounts to total unsoundness of mind, and he is totally incapable of taking care of himself or his property. ...

A commission of lunacy, mad doctors, and happy hunting.

Makeshift sledges after social occasion can lead to an unhappy end to a holiday Sledging can be compared with another high risk activity, motorcycle riding. The 1268 inpatients admitted over one year included 280 motorcycle drivers, among whom there were seven spinal injuries but no cases ofparaplegia.' When high speeds are achieved sledging is intrinsically dangerous. Even when compared with m...

Some Reflections on the Report of the Royal Commission on Lunacy and Mental Disorder

Dealing with a subject surrounded by much ignorance and more misapprehension, tne Commissioners Have produced an admirable Report reflecting the niodern and more enlightened views on mental disease, keeping a sane and balanced judgment between the claims of the individual and the rights of the community, inspired by real feeling for the sultering of the individual and of his relations, yet lull...

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...

The Trade in Lunacy