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... chronic and mixed classes of in- sane in the country ; or of scientific study , rational treatment and preventive medicine.2 These periods , while distinct in their outline , have not shown any sudden break of continuity in the ...
... chronic and mixed classes of in- sane in the country ; or of scientific study , rational treatment and preventive medicine.2 These periods , while distinct in their outline , have not shown any sudden break of continuity in the ...
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... chronic insane congregated and were subjected to every possible degree of cruelty and neglect ; and in the asylum of the New York Hospital , where they were treated in the most humane manner , by the best class of officers and ...
... chronic insane congregated and were subjected to every possible degree of cruelty and neglect ; and in the asylum of the New York Hospital , where they were treated in the most humane manner , by the best class of officers and ...
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... chronic insane , in many instances , an assumption also of the right of treating acute cases of insanity . This was done by county officers who , on the plea of economy , evaded the law relating to the speedy commitment of recent cases ...
... chronic insane , in many instances , an assumption also of the right of treating acute cases of insanity . This was done by county officers who , on the plea of economy , evaded the law relating to the speedy commitment of recent cases ...
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... chronic classes , * and the further provision that acute cases were to be sent to the Utica State Hospital . After the completion of the Willard Asylum no more chronic cases were to be sent to the county poor - houses from the Utica ...
... chronic classes , * and the further provision that acute cases were to be sent to the Utica State Hospital . After the completion of the Willard Asylum no more chronic cases were to be sent to the county poor - houses from the Utica ...
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... Chronic Insane.2 The latter was opened for the reception of patients of the chronic pauper class from poor - houses in October , 1881. There was no further legislation of importance until 18873 when the St. Lawrence State Asylum at ...
... Chronic Insane.2 The latter was opened for the reception of patients of the chronic pauper class from poor - houses in October , 1881. There was no further legislation of importance until 18873 when the St. Lawrence State Asylum at ...
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Page 27 - No person shall be committed to or confined as a patient in any asylum, public or private, or in any institution, home or retreat for the care and treatment of the insane, except upon the certificate of two physicians, under oath, setting forth the insanity of such person.
Page 102 - ... might have been detected by means of a competent medical examination at such time, such person shall pay to the collector of customs of the...
Page 168 - I have not to my knowledge been infected with any venereal disease, or if I have been so infected within five years I have had a laboratory test within that period which shows that I am now free from infection from any such disease.
Page 27 - But no person shall be held in confinement in any such asylum for more than five days, unless within that time such certificate be approved by a judge or justice of a court of record of the county or district in which the alleged lunatic resides, and said judge or justice may institute inquiry and take proofs as to any alleged lunacy before approving or disapproving of such certificate, and said judge or justice may, in his discretion call a jury in each case to determine the question of lunacy.
Page 102 - States or of all forms of law or the assassination of public officials; any alien who within five years after entry becomes a public charge from causes not affirmatively shown to have arisen subsequent to landing...
Page 57 - ... the magistrate must issue a warrant, directed generally to the sheriff of the county, or any constable, marshal, or policeman in the state, reciting the substance of the information and commanding the officer forthwith to arrest the person informed of and bring him before the magistrate.
Page 55 - ... representative of an incorporated society doing charitable or philanthropic work. When the trustees of Bellevue and allied hospitals are thus informed of an apparently insane person, residing in the boroughs of Manhattan or the Bronx...
Page 45 - Commission by the Committee on Mental Hygiene of the State Charities Aid Association, November 1917.
Page 78 - July, nineteen hundred and one, the jurisdiction of the department of public charities of The City of New York over Bellevue Hospital and the Fordham, Harlem and Gouverneur Hospitals and the Emergency Hospital in east Twenty-sixth street...
Page 105 - ... punishable by imprisonment in a state prison not exceeding two years, or by a fine not exceeding three times the value of the property omitted in such bill, or both.