Annual Report of the State Board of Insanity of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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Wright & Potter Printing Company, State Printers., 1914
A "Directory of institutions" is included also, 1898/99-1914/15.
 

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Página 160 - To accept and hold in trust for the county, any grant or devise of land, or any gift or bequest of money or other personal property or any donation to be applied, principal or income, or both, for the benefit of said hospital, and apply the same in accordance with the terms of the gift.
Página 159 - They shall, from time to time, establish rules, regulations and by-laws for its government, for the direction of its officers and the instruction and discipline of its inmates ; and they shall see that its affairs are conducted according to law and to said rules, regulations and by-laws. They shall appoint a superintendent who shall be the executive officer of the school and, subject to the approval of the governor and council, they shall fix his compensation. SECTION 6. Said trustees and the state...
Página 99 - Clinical instruction should be given to medical students, the future family physicians, who would thus be taught to recognize and treat mental disease in its earliest stages, when curative measures avail most. Such a hospital, therefore, should be accessible to medical schools, other hospitals, clinics and laboratories. It should be a center of education and training of physicians, nurses, investigators, and special workers in this and allied fields of work.
Página 9 - ... any person so committed or restrained, if, in its opinion, such person is not insane, or can be cared for after such discharge without danger to others, and with benefit to such person.
Página 120 - ... many cases, would soon constitute an invaluable treasury of information as a basis for scientific research and study in the search for practical methods of prevention. The official visitor would advise the parents as to the care and management of the defective and would have opportunity to inform the family, the local officials and the community generally as to the hereditary nature and the peculiar dangers of feeble-mindedness. The registration of every feeble-minded person, and the regular...
Página 160 - Commonwealth, any grant or devise of lands, and any donation or bequest of money or other personal property made for the use of the institution of which they are trustees, and for the purpose of preserving and investing the proceeds thereof, in notes or bonds secured by good and sufficient mortgages or other securities, with all the powers necessary to carry said purposes into effect.
Página 53 - ... and if not, upon the person with whom such alleged insane person may reside, or at whose house he may be.
Página 53 - ... representative of an incorporated society doing charitable or philanthropic work. When the trustees of Bellevue and allied hospitals are thus informed of an apparently insane person, residing in the boroughs of Manhattan or the Bronx...
Página 54 - ... wards of their respective institutions, or both, to the place where the alleged insane person resides or is to be found. If, in the judgment of the chief resident alienist of the respective psychopathic...
Página 185 - The said commission shall report the result of its investigation, with any recommendations which it may deem necessary, to the next general court not later than the second Wednesday of January.

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