Report of the Royal Commission on the care and control of the feeble-minded, Volume VIII.

  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-minded.
Date:
1908
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    See para- grai)li 1011. See para- grapli 101 See ])ara- j;raph 1020. See para- grajili 1039. SCOTLAND (Recommendations. J^EOOMMENDATION XIII. That substantial financial assistance be granted from the Exchequer Exchequer grant to the local authorities for the care and maintenance of mentally defective persons and epileptics not mentally defective, on the lines suggested in Recommendation XL. to XLII. as to England and Wales. Recommendation XIV. That the accounts of the local authority which makes provision for the Audit of accounts accommodation of mentally defective persons be audited by a Government Auditor and that the specifications for tenders and contract prices be examined by the Board of Control. Recommendation XV. That the residence of any pauper mentally defective person in any Time of residence institution, hospital, establishment, or any home licensed for the ac- institution , - Vl X .L J X- .L • • for the mentally commodation, maintenance, care, treatment, education, training or defective not to control of any of the classes of mentally defective shall be deemed to count for be the residence of such mentally defective person] in the parish charge- able with the maintenance of such mentally defective person. Recommendation XVI. That it is desirable that in the case of persons under twenty-one years Cases under of age for whose care and control any local authority is required to make suitable and sufficient provision, and who, in its opinion, are not under parental or other suitable parental or other control, and are not receiving suitable training, control, etc. or are cruelly treated, or otherwise neglected, the local authority have power to resolve that until the child reaches the age of twenty-one the rights and powers of the parent or guardian vest in the District Board, subject to such conditions and appeal as may seem necessary (Cf. Recom- mendations as to England and Wales, XLIX, to LI.) Recommendation XVII. That with a view to facilitate the work of the local authority in the inquiry as to first instance it shall be its duty in pursuance of regulations to be laid number ^ down by the Board of Control to ascertain as far as possible the number of tive^pe^ons.^^ mentally defective persons for whom it is liable to provide, either by its medical officer or by a well qualified medical man appointed for the purpose. Recommendation XVIII. That it shall be the duty of medical officers who are in charge of Report as to asylums for persons of unsound mind, receiving houses and ^^^ception wards, to report to the local authority for special consideration the cases niind. of persons who are repeatedly certified and admitted and repeatedly dis- charged, or who are in such a mental condition as would be likely to occasion their relapse under the stress of life, with a view to care and control being exercised in regard to them, if desirable, in some other and more eflectual manner; and in cases of doubt whether the patient should or should not be discharged there may be an appeal to the Board of Control on the question and the decision of the Board shall be final. 103.—VII1. 40.5 3 M 2