Excerpt from The Law of Commitment to Hospitals for the Insane in the State of Illinois A Paper Prepared and Published at the request of the State Com missioners of Public Charities for the State of Illinois. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Law of Insanity, and Hospitals for the Insane in Massachusetts IN legislating for the Insane and Insane Institutions, it is necessary to hold in view the precise character and con dition of the classes and persons for whom the law is to be made, and also the kind and objects of the provisions which are to be created for, and offered to them. The law, when written, should be so carefully adapted to the conditions, circumstances and wants of the classes and persons for whom it is established, it should so clearly and completely describe them, that by no imperfection of description, in principles or in detail, should any, who ought to enjoy the provisions made, be deprived of their advantages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Summaries of Laws Relating to the Commitment and Care of the Insane in the United States In order to present the summaries in a convenient form for com parisons between states in regard to the most important provisions of the laws, it was necessary to adopt a uniform scheme. There fore the extracts of the laws of the different states are given under Specified headings regardless of the fact that the codes and statutes follow a different order of presentation. The matter contained in the summaries has been gathered under the following general heads. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.