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Sketch of the French Legislation Relative to the Insane

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

M. Achille Foville*
Affiliation:
Paris, Inspector-General of Charitable and Insane Establishments

Extract

The question of the revision of legislation in regard to the insane is, at this time, under consideration both in England and in France. In England Parliament has been occupied with various projects of law, results more or less direct of the parliamentary inquiry of 1877. In France the Government has charged a Commission composed of Senators, Deputies, Administrators, and Physicians, to study the improvements that might be introduced into this legislation.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1882 

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* Dr. Foville has kindly responded to the request to write an article for this Journal, on a subject which cannot fail to interest English alienists, the more so when further lunacy legislation is probable on this side of the Channel.—[Eds.] Google Scholar
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