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The After-care of Friendless Patients Discharged from Asylums, as provided for by the Scottish Probationary Procedure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

J. Carlyle Johnstone
J. Carlyle Johnstone*
Affiliation:
Roxburgh District Asylum, Melrose
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BY the Act 25 and 26 Vict. cap. 54, sect. 16, the General Board of Lunacy, Scotland, may grant authority for the liberation on trial or probation of any lunatic from any asylum for such time and under such regulations as the Board may consider necessary or proper, and by the Act 29 and 30 Vict. cap. 51, sect. 8, every pauper lunatic who is discharged on probation shall remain subject to inspection by the Commissioners during the period of probation, and it shall not be lawful for the parish council to take any such pauper lunatic off the poor roll, or to alter the conditions on which probationary discharge was granted, without the sanction of the Board, during the period of probation.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 50 , Issue 210 , July 1904 , pp. 455 - 461
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1904 

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References

(1) Paper read at the International Home Relief Congress, Edinburgh, June, 1904.Google Scholar

(2) It may be explained that there is a parish council for every parish in Scotland, and that it is the duty of this council through its paid officer, the inspector of poor, to provide for the maintenance of every poor person who is unable to maintain himself. As part of this duty it has to provide for the insane poor.Google Scholar

(3) It often happens that the patient belongs to a family which, though unable to maintain him in the asylum, is in sufficiently good circumstances not to require any parochial aid for him during the currency of the probationary period.Google Scholar

(4) Among other means of influencing parish councils there is what is known as the Government grant. This is a contribution towards the cost of maintenance of the insane poor given out of the general taxation of the country, amounting as a rule to about one half of the cost. This money is not paid to a parish council in respect of any patient who is not, in the opinion of the General Board, suitably provided for, and it is withheld in the cases where the instructions of the board are not carried out.Google Scholar

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