Manual of Lunacy : A Handbook Relating to the Legal Care and Treatment of the Insane in the Public and Private Asylums of Great Britain, Ireland, Unit (Paperback)

Preface; 1. History of lunacy legislation; 2. Present state of lunacy in England and Wales; 3. Epitome of the Lunacy Act; 4. On the management of asylums and licensed houses; 5. Private patients; 6. Single patients confined in unlicensed private houses; 7. Pauper lunatics; 8. Commissions in lunacy and chancery lunatics; 9. St Luke's and Bethlehem hospitals for lunatics; 10. Liabilities incurred by those concerned in the confinement of persons alleged to be insane; 11. Lunacy in Scotland; 12. Lunacy in Ireland; 13. Lunacy in France; 14. Lunacy in Belgium; 15. Lunacy in Germany; 16. Lunacy in the United States of America; 17. Lunacy in Russia; 18. Recent lunacy statistics and instructions; 19. Definitions and explanation of terms; Appendices; Index.