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Lunacy and the Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

T. Outterson Wood*
Affiliation:
West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, W

Extract

It augurs well for the success of the action taken by the Conjoint Committee of the British Medical Association and this Association with regard to the amendment of the Lunacy Law, to enable cases of recent (incipient) insanity to be legally treated in private care, without being certified as lunatics, that the Lord Chancellor inserted into his proposed Lunacy Bill a clause to meet our requirements, in the very terms I advocated at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association in 1896.

Type
Part I—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1903 

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