Sec. 39.—A penalty is now imposed on any officer or servant conniving at an escape.
Sec. 43.—In the absence of any person qualified under ss. 72, 73, c. 100, the Commissioners may order discharge or removal of a patient.
Sec. 38.—Absence on trial may be permitted to patients, in the same way as leave of absence for the benefit of health is permitted under s. 86, c. 100.
Medical Certificates.
Sec 27.—Where medical certificates have been returned with a written direction of the Commissioners for amendment, and such amendment shall not have been made within fourteen days, the Commissioners may order the patient's discharge.
Sec. 22.—Lunatics so found by inquisition may be received without certificate on an order of the committee, accompanied by an official copy of the order appointing such Committee.[316]
Workhouses.
The Poor Law Board issued a circular at the same time. The only paragraph which it is of interest to cite here is the following:—"The eighth section empowers the Visitors of any asylum and the guardians of any parish or union within the district for which the asylum has been provided, if they shall see fit, to make arrangements, subject to the approval of the Commissioners in Lunacy and the President of the Poor Law Board, for the reception and care of a limited number of chronic lunatics in the workhouse of such parish or union, to be selected by the superintendent of the asylum and certified by him to be fit and proper so to be removed. The Board are at present not aware of any workhouse in which any such arrangement could conveniently be made; but they will be ready to consider any such proposals on the subject when the Visitors of the Board of Guardians of any union shall find it convenient or practicable to act upon this clause."
Footnotes:
[316] Seventeenth Report of Commissioners in Lunacy, 1863.