Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of Public Charities, Volumen 4 |
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age when attacked Allegheny Allegheny county alms-house arranged asylum average number Berks county Board born building cells cent charged CHARITIES chronic colored boys colored girls Colored males comfortable commutation law condition confined convicted of crimes cost County almshouse court crimes against property criminal Dementia Dixmont duration of disease Eastern Penitentiary ending September 30 Epilepsy farm forms of insanity friends House of Refuge Imbecility improvements insane convicts institution intemperate jail labor larceny largest number Legislature Lunatic Hospital Luzerne Luzerne County Males Fem Mania Melancholia ment mental Monomania months ending September natives of Pennsylvania nine months ending number of inmates occupations offences out-door relief patients admitted paupers penitentiary persons Philadelphia Philadelphia county physician poor house prison proper proportion pupils received Reform School rooms sentence separate sheriff steward story supported tion treatment vagrants ventilation Visited water closets Western Pennsylvania Hospital white boys white juveniles whole number
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Página cxci - ... of the said warden, or other officer in charge, to make immediately a full examination into the condition of such convict, and if fully satisfied that he is insane, the said warden or other officer in charge where said convict is confined shall forthwith cause such convict to be transferred to the Michigan asylum for Insane Criminals, after such institution shall be...
Página clxxi - Court before whom such trial shall be had, shall order such person to be kept in strict custody, in such place, and in such manner, as to the Court shall seem fit, until his Majesty's pleasure shall be known...
Página cxci - ... asylum, where he shall remain until restored to his right mind ; and then, if the said judge shall have so directed, the superintendent...
Página cxc - When a person tried for an offense shall be acquitted by the jury for the cause of insanity, the jury, in giving their verdict of not guilty, shall state that it was given for such cause, and thereupon, if the discharge or going at large of such insane person shall be considered by the court manifestly dangerous to the peace and safety of the...
Página clxxii - The courts of this Commonwealth shall have power to commit to said asylum any person who, having been charged with an offense punishable by imprisonment or death, shall have been found to...
Página cxc - When any person so indicted or informed against for an offense, shall on trial be acquitted by the jury by reason of insanity, the jury, in giving their verdict of not guilty, shall state that it was given for such cause, and thereupon, if the discharge or going at large of such insane person shall be considered by the court manifestly dangerous to the peace and safety of the community...
Página clxxi - ... for that purpose, so that such person cannot be tried upon such indictment, or if upon the trial of any person so indicted such person shall appear to the jury charged with such indictment to be insane, it shall be lawful for the Court before whom any such person shall be brought to be...
Página cc - ... the other patients. Since that time twelve insane convicts have been transferred from Wethersfield to Middletown ; two of that number have escaped ; one of them feigned insanity ; arrangements had been made to transfer him to Wethersfield, but he escaped the very night before the transfer was to be made. Of the ten others, seven have been among the most valuable farm laborers, harmless, industrious, and peaceable, and yet positively insane ; much less dangerous than many of the chronic patients....
Página clxxi - In every such case it shall be lawful for the Court to make an order on the husband for payment to the wife during their joint lives of such monthly or weekly sums for her maintenance and support as the Court may think reasonable : provided always, that if the husband shall afterwards from any cause become unable to make such payments it shall be lawful for the Court...
Página clxxiv - ... proof. Although the jury may certify that their acquittal is on that ground, and thus empower the court to order the prisoner into close custody, yet that custody can be in no other place than thc common prisons, — places illy qualified for such a subject of incarceration.