Text-book of forensic medicine and toxicologyBuchanan, R. J. M. (Robert James McLean)
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Text-book of forensic medicine and toxicology
Buchanan, R. J. M. (Robert James McLean)
Medical jurisprudence; Poisons
(_c_) _______________________________________________________
_______________________________________an alleged lunatic.
I, the undersigned, ______________________________________________
do hereby certify as follows:
1. I am a person registered under the Medical Act, 1858,
and I am in the actual practice of the medical profession.
2. On the_______________________ day of ________________ 19__
at (_d_) _______________________________________________
in the (_e_)___________________ of _____________________
_________________(separately from any other practitioner) (_f_)
I personally examined the said ___________________________________
and came to the conclusion that ____ he is (_g_) ____________
and a proper person to be taken charge of and detained under
care and treatment.
3. I formed this conclusion on the following grounds, viz.:--
(_a_) Facts indicating insanity observed by myself at the
time of examination (_h_), viz.:--
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
(_b_) Facts communicated by others (_i_), viz.:
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
4. The said __________________________________________________
appeared to me to be[18]..................in a fit condition of
bodily health to be removed to an asylum, hospital, or licensed
house (_k_).
5. I give this certificate having first read the section of the
Act of Parliament printed below.
=Signed=____________________________________
of (_l_)_____________________________
=Dated= this __________ day of ________ 19__
[18] _Or_ not to be.
[Sidenote: Lunacy 8.
53 Vict. c. 5, ss. 4, 11, 16, 28, 29.]
_Extract from section 317 of the Lunacy Act, 1890._
Any person who makes a wilful misstatement of any material
fact in any medical or other certificate or in any statement or
report of bodily or mental condition under this Act, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanour.
[Sidenote: (_a_) A Justice for --, specially appointed under the
Lunacy Act, 1890, _or_ the Judge of the County Court of --, _or_ the
Stipendiary Magistrate for--
(_b_) _Address and occupation._
(_d_) _Name of petitioner._]
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