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Mental Hygiene and Prophylaxis in France

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

H. Colin*
Affiliation:
Medico-Psychological Society of Paris

Extract

IN February, 1914, there came before the French Senate a project for the revision of the law of 1838 regarding the insane. The law of 1838 states that “each department is to have a public establishment designed specially to admit and care for the insane.” This article was rewritten in the new project as follows. “Persons suffering from mental affections which compromise public order or who are dangerous to themselves or others are to be cared for and detained in special establishments when they cannot be provided for at their own homes.”

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1921 

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