Authorizes amendment of any order or certificate within fourteen days after admission of patient.
Permits the Commissioners to allow medical visitation of single patients less frequently than once a fortnight.
Empowers one or more Visitors to visit single patients at request of Commissioners, and report to them their condition.
Directs that the medical man who visits a single patient shall make an annual report to the Commissioners of the mental and bodily health of such patient.
Empowers the Lord Chancellor to discharge single patients.
Directs that notice of the recovery of every patient shall be sent to his friends, or in case of a pauper to his parish officers, and in case of death of a patient in any hospital or licensed house, a statement of the cause, etc., to the coroner.
Authorizes transfer of a private patient (with consent of two Commissioners) from one asylum, hospital, or licensed house to another, without any fresh order or certificate, and similarly as to single patients.
Empowers the Lord Chancellor, on the representation of the Commissioners, to require a statement of the property and application of the income of any person detained as a lunatic under an order and certificates.
Extends to the Commissioners the powers vested in the private committee, as to single patients, by the Act 8 and 9 Vict., c. 100, s. 111.
Repeals s. 27 of 8 and 9 Vict., c. 100, as to the visitation of workhouses; and enacts that one or more Commissioners shall visit such workhouses as the Board shall direct.