SCHEDULE "E."-(SECTION 48.)

Notice of Admission.

day of

I hereby give you notice, that A. B. was received into this house as a patient, on the , and I hereby transmit a copy of the order and medical certificates (or certificate) on which he was received. Subjoined is a statement with respect to the mental and bodily condition of the above-named patient.

I have this day seen and personally examined A. B., the patient named in the above notice, and hereby certify that, with respect to mental state, he (or she) and that, with

respect of bodily health and condition, he (or she)

SCHEDULE "G."-(SECTION 50.)

Form of Notice of Discharge or Death.

I hereby give notice that

house on the

day of

a patient received into this was discharged therefrom,

recovered (or relieved, or not improved therefrom or was re

In case of death, add and I further certify that A. B.

was present at the death of the said

parent cause of the death of the said

post-mortem examination, if so) was

and that the ap

(ascertained by

SCHEDULE "H."-(SECTION 83.)

Form of Summons

We, whose names are hereunto set and seals affixed, being two of the visitors appointed under or by virtue of chapter two hundred and twenty-one of the Revised Statutes of Ontario respecting private lunatic asylums, do hereby summon and require you personally to appear before us at

on

in the

, in

at the hour of

noon of the same day, and then and there to be examined, and to testify the truth touching certain matters relating to the execution of the said act.

Given under our hands and seals, this

day of

in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and

Date of Report.

SCHEDULE "J."-(SECTION 55, SUB-SECTION 4.)
Form of Medical Journal, and Weekly Report.

The other statutes of the province of Ontario, relating to insanity are:

Revised Statutes of Ontario, ch. 220, "An Act respecting Lunatic Asylums and the Custody of Insane Persons."

Revised Statutes, ch. 223, "An Act to regulate Public Aid to Charitable Institutions."

Revised Statutes, ch. 224, "An Act to provide for the Inspection of Asylums, Hospitals, Common Jails and Reformatories in this Province."

Act of 1878, ch. 8, 23, repeals Rev. Stat., ch. 220, 52.

Act of 1880, ch. 26, "An Act respecting the Support of Destitute Insane Persons," inter alia repeals Rev. Stat., ch. 179.

Act of 1880, ch. 36, "An Act to make further Provisions respecting the Estates of Persons confined in Asylums for the Insane.

Act of 1881, ch. 33, repeals Rev. Stat., ch. 224, 8% 23, 24.

Act of 1882, ch. 32, "An Act to amend the 'Act respecting Lunatic Asylums and the Custody of Insane Persons' [Rev. Stat., ch. 220]."

Act of 1883, ch. 30, "An Act respecting the Office of Inspector of Prisons and Public Charities, and respecting Persons committed as Lunatics."

Criminal Law Procedure Act, 32 and 33 Vict., ch. 29, 88 99-105, applying to the Dominion of Canada, extended to Manitoba by 34 Vict., ch. 14, and to British Columbia by 37 Vict., ch. 42.

FRANCE.

LAW OF JUNE 30TH, 1838.

TITLE I.-CONCERNING INSANE ASYLUMS.

Article 1. Every department must have a public establishment designed to receive and treat the insane; or, if not, must make an agreement with a public or private institution of the same or another department. The arrangements made with such establishments must be approved by the minister of the interior.

Article 2. The public establishments for the insane are placed under the supervision of public authority.

Article 3. The private establishments for the insane are placed under the supervision of public authority.

Article 4. The prefect and the persons specially selected by him or by the minister of the interior, the president of the court, procurator of the king, the justices of the peace, or the mayor of the communities, shall visit the public and the private insane asylums. They shall receive the declarations of the persons, and shall inform themselves of their conditions. The private establishments shall be visited at irregular intervals, once at least in three months, by the procurator of the king. The public establishments shall be visited in the same manner at least once in six months.

Article 5. No one shall conduct or establish a private insane asylum without the authority of the government. The private establishments intended for the treatment of other diseases are permitted to receive the insane, only, when they can

be placed entirely by themselves. These establishments must be especially authorized by the government to do so, and shall be subject, as far as the insane are concerned, to all the regulations, which the law presents.

Article 6. Administrative regulations will determine the conditions to which the authorization of the preceding articles are subject, the cases where they can be retracted and the obligations to which the authorized establishments are subject.

Article 7. The interior regulations of the establishments for the insane, shall be submitted to the approval of the minister of the interior.

TITLE II.-HOW TO PLACE THE INSANE IN THE ASYLUMS.

Section 1.-Commitment by Friends or Relatives.

Article 8. The chiefs or the responsible directors of the public asylums, and the directors of the private asylums may receive a person of diseased mind only, when there is laid be fore them:

(1) The written request for admission, containing the names, profession, age, and domicile of the person who makes the request, and of the person to be received; stating also the degree of relationship, between both parties. The requests for admission must be written and signed by the one who makes it, and if he cannot write, it shall be made out by the mayor or the commissioner of police. The chiefs or directors must assure themselves, on their own responsibility, of the identity of the person who makes the request, when this request has not been received by the mayor or commissioner of police. If the request for admission is made by the guardian of an irresponsible person, he must furnish a written extract of the sentence of irresponsibility that has been pronounced concerning his ward. (2) A physician's certificate stating the mental condition of the person to be placed in the asylum, indicating the particulars of his malady and the necessity of treating and retaining him in an insane asylum. This certificate shall not be received, if it has been delivered to the directors more than two weeks before the reception of the patient, or if it has been signed by a physician attached to the asylum, or if the physician who signed it is related, in the first or second degree, to