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The Superannuation Question: its Effect on Asylum Officials, with Suggestions for Further Legislation on the Matter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Edward D. O'Neill*
Affiliation:
Limerick District Lunatic Asylum

Extract

In approaching the subject-matter of this paper I am fully conscious of its importance and the difficulties to be contended with in dealing with such a vexed question, the far-reaching effect of which must of a necessity materially influence the financial position on retirement of thousands of asylum officials of all grades. In adopting the question of superannuation I do not think I could have selected a better or more useful one for the purpose of calling attention to the provisions of the Acts of Parliament which determine the retiring allowances in this country, and the similiar Acts operating in England and Scotland, and, at the same time, eliciting an opinion as to how our common interests could be best served in getting rid of the permissive clauses common to all the Acts.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1901 

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References

(1) Since this paper was written a very favourable decision has been given in the Court of Appeal by Chief Baron Pallas in the case of Taylor (Medical Superintendent, Monaghan Asylum) against the Local Government Board.Google Scholar

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