9. The present act shall come into force on the day of Act in force. its sanction. SCHEDULE A. ...... 5.00 10.00 To the Coroner, fee for each inquest and return... $ 6.00 Schedule. To a physician, for external examination.. To a physician, for internal examination.... To the coroner and physician for mileage cover ing all travelling expenses, for every mile actually travelled for the purposes of such inquest .... To the constable summoning witnesses, each wit 0 10 ness ....... 0.30 To the constable summoning jury.. 1.00 To a secretary or clerk in cases of an extraordinary nature, per day..... 2.00 For chemical analysis, to comprise every analysis made on one body or any part or parts of the same body, for one inquest..... Whenever a chemical analysis is deemed necessary by the Jury and the coroner, the coroner will report to the Attorney-General who will select the physician by whom such analysis is to be made, and if such inquest and analysis shall have been especially difficult, the law officers of the Crown may allow a greater sum. All reasonable expenses, such as the leasing of a place to hold the inquest, taking charge of body, notifying the coroner, burial expenses of paupers, to be paid. All accounts in connection with services of physicians or burial expenses, to be certified by the foreman of the jury. 20.00 An Act respecting Lunatic Asylums in the Province of Quebec, subsidized by the government. [Assented to 31st October, 1879.] ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent 1. Only lunatics who have not themselves or through Persons adsome relatives bound by law to support them, the means mitted to asylums. to pay in whole or in part, their expenses of maintenance, Application by whom made. Form of in a lunatic asylum, shall be admitted into asylums at the expense of the government. In order to obtain the admission of a pauper lunatic into one of the asylums of the province, at the expense of the government, it shall be necessary that a relative, friend or guardian of the patient, make application therefor by a letter addressed to the Provincial Secretary. 2. This application must be accompanied by three application. certificates in the form set forth in the appendix under the letters A. B. and C. Form A. Form B. Form C. Attestation to these three 3. The form A. must be signed by three citizens residing in the same place as the lunatic; Form B. must be signed by a physician, establishing the state of the patient's mind, and declaring whether or not it be a case of idiocy or imbecility; Form C must be signed by two citizens residing in the same locality as the patient, and they shall personally be responsible to the province of Quebec, for the payment of the board of the lunatic named in certificate in the form C. if it be established that the declarations therein contained are unfounded and made in bad faith. The signatures affixed to these three forms must be of signatures attested and acknowledged before a justice of the peace, in accordance with the provisions of the act of the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada, 37 Vict., chap. 37. forms. Duties and powers of Prov. Sec. idiots. 4. On receipt of such letter and such certificates, the Provincial Secretary shall submit them to the visiting physician of the asylum into which it is desired that the patient be admitted, and on his report, the ProvincialSecretary shall grant or refuse such request and shall give notice thereof to the parties interested. Admission of 5. Idiots and imbecile persons shall not be admitted imbeciles and as government patients into asylums, unless they be dangerous or a source of scandal, subject to attacks of epilepsy or afflicte with any monstrous deformity. Monthly report by visit 6. At the commencement of each month, the visiting ing physician physician of the asylum, after having demanded the to Prov Sec. written opinion of the proprietor or superintendent of the asylum, or of the physician employed by them, as to the mental condition of the patients, shall send in a report to the Provincial Secretary as to the patients who, in his opinion, should be discharged, and shall forward with the said report, the information in writing on the subject which shall be supplied by the proprietors or resident physician of the asylum. On this report of the physician, Release of patients. the Provincial Secretary shall forward to the proprietors of the asylum, an order to set such patients at liberty, and such order must be carried out within eight days of the receipt thereof, and at the expiration of the said eight days, the patient shall no longer be kept at government expenses. sician to have 7. For the purposes of the preceding section, the Visiting phyvisiting physician shall, at all times, have access to every free access part of the lunatic asylum under his control, and he may to asylum. also, when he deems it necessary and, at suitable hours, His powers. take communication of the registers in which the names of the patients are inscribed, as well as of all documents or books relating to the government patients. 8. Any person who has the legal charge of a patient in Release of patients by an asylum, may obtain his release, by addressing to the those who Provincial Secretary, a petition accompanied by a decla- have leg 1 ration by which he shall bind himself to take care of the charge. patient. Whenever the Provincial Secretary shall be convinced by the report of the visiting physician, that the patient may be discharged without danger, he shall give an order in consequence, which shall be executed. and at the expense of such relative, guardian or friend. 9. The above provisions do not apply to lunatics who Certain lunaare detained under the provisions of chapter 109 of the ties, not subConsolidated Statutes of Canada, nor to those of the act visions of ject to pro32-33 Vict., chap. 29, and its amendments. this act. Examination of lunatic 10. Whenever the Sheriff or other competent officer, matic shall have reported to the Provincial Secretary, that any confined person confined in any of the prisons of this province, for in Gaols any cause whatsoever, is insane, the Provincial Secretary shall cause such insane person to be examined by one of the visiting physicians of the asylum, or by any other physician by him appointed, and if the report of such physician establishes the insanity of such prisoner, the Provincial Secretary shall recommend his removal to a lunatic asylum, and the Lieutenant Governor may issue his warrant in consequence. 11. Every visiting physician shall forward with his Certificate of report, the certificate of the physician of the prison which sician of the visiting physhall be to the same effect as the certificate required by gaol. the above section 3 and according to form B annexed to the present act. 12. On the report of a visiting physician or any other Lunatics conphysician appointed for such purpose, with the informa- c. 139 c. s. c. fined under cover use of reason. 32-33 v. c. 29, tions supplied by the proprietors or resident physicians who may re- which may accompany the same, establishing that a lunatic confined in an asylum, under the authority of chapter 109 of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada, or of the act 32-23 Vict., chap. 29, has recovered the use of his reason, the Lieutenant Governor shall, on the recommendation of the Provincial Secretary, and according to the circumstances, order that such person so detained, be discharged, or that he be brought back to gaol to stand his trial or to have his sentence carried out. Commission lished. 13. The present commission of the Beauport Lunatic of Beauport asylum, abo- Asylum is hereby abolished, all laws, orders in council or agreements to the contrary notwithstanding, and all documents, registers and papers, regarding the insane. and which are now in the possession of the secretary of the said commission, shall be handed over by the said secretary, after ten days' notice to that effect, to the Provincial Secretary's office, and no other commission can be appointed in future notwithstanding any act or statute passed up to the present date. sician, paid by each Resident hy. 14. The proprietors of each of the said asylums must appoint and keep at their own expenses, a physician who shall reside in such asylum or in its immediate neighborhood. asylum. Acts repea!ed. Act in force. 15. All acts inconsistent with the provisions above mentioned are hereby repealed. 16. The present act shall come into force on the day of the sanction thereof. Information required in cases of application for admission of Patients into the Lunatic Asylum of Friends or Relatives of Patients applying for admission into the asylum, Sheriffs or Wardens in case of Insane Prisoners, are particularly requested with the aid of the Physician, to furnish full and explicit answers to the following questions: |