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Psychiatry and the Report of the Royal Commission

The Presidential Address, Section of Psychiatry of the Royal Society of Medicine, delivered at the House of the Society on November 8, 1927

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

R. Langdon-Down
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Extract

The Royal Commission on Lunacy and Mental Disorder was set up in July, 1924, to inquire into a matter of urgent public importance, that is to say:

  1. (1) The existing law and administrative machinery in England and Wales in connection with the certification, detention and care of persons who are, or who are alleged to be, of unsound mind.

  2. (2) The extent to which provision is or should be made in England and Wales for the treatment without certification of persons suffering from mental disorder and to make recom mendations.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 74 , Issue 304 , January 1928 , pp. 35 - 49
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1928 

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