Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 3 (of 3)Paris, John Ayrton
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Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 3 (of 3)
Paris, John Ayrton
Medical laws and legislation -- Great Britain
And, in order that the said commissioners may know when any patient is
received into any such licensed house or place, as aforesaid, be it
further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the keeper of every
such licensed house or place within the said cities of _London_ and
_Westminster_, and within seven miles of the same, and within the said
county of _Middlesex_, is hereby required, within the space of three
days after any patient shall be received into any such licensed house or
place, (except such pauper lunaticks as shall happen to be sent there by
parish officers), to cause notice thereof to be given to the secretary
to the said commissioners, which notice shall contain the name of every
such person received as a lunatick into such house or place, the name or
names, and place or places of abode, of the person or persons by whose
direction such lunatick was sent to such house or place, and also the
name and place of abode of the physician, surgeon, or apothecary, by
whose advice such direction was given; all which notices shall be sent
sealed up, directed _To the Secretary to the Commissioners for licensing
Houses for the Reception of Lunaticks, to be left with the Beadle of the
College of Physicians in London_; all which notices the said beadle is
hereby directed to receive, and to deliver to the said secretary, within
two days after the same shall come to his hands; and the secretary is
hereby required to file and preserve all such notices, and also to
enter, or cause a copy or extract thereof to be entered, in the
register, within two days after the receipt of such notices; and every
keeper of any such licensed house or place, who shall admit, harbour,
entertain, or confine, any person as a lunatick, without having an
order, in writing, under the hand and seal of some physician, surgeon,
or apothecary, that such person is proper to be received into such house
or place as a lunatick, or shall receive any lunatick into any such
house or place, having such order, and shall not give notice thereof to
the secretary of the said commissioners, within the time, and in the
manner aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the sum of One hundred pounds.
And, in order that such houses or places for the reception of lunaticks
as are not situated within the limits aforesaid may be put under some
regulation, be it further enacted, That no house, which is not within
the said city of _London_, or within seven miles of the same, or within
the said county of _Middlesex_, shall be kept for the reception of more
than one lunatick, unless such house or place shall be licensed by the
Justices of the Peace, at some Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be
holden for the county or place wherein such house or place shall be
situated.
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