Date of Report. SCHEDULE "J." (SECTION 55, SUB-SECTION 4.) 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, ¿¿ 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, % 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 before 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 the chiefs or owners of the establishment, or to the person who asks for the admission of the patient. In cases of emergency the chiefs of public establishments can dispense with the medical certificate. (3) The passport or any other paper stating the individuality of the person to be placed. Mention must be made, of all the papers produced, in a report which shall be sent within twentyfour hours, together with a certificate of the doctor of the establishment and a copy of the one mentioned before, to the prefect of the police, at Paris, to the prefect or under-prefect in all the chief places of the province, and to the mayors of the other cummunities. The under-prefect or the mayor must immediately transmit this to the prefect. Article 9. When a person has been placed in a private establishment, the prefect shall, within three days after the reception of the report, commission one or more specialists to visit the person described in the report, in order to report upon his mental condition; and may join to them any other person he chooses. Article 10. Within the same interval of time the prefect shall record the name, profession, and domicile, of the person placed, and why so placed, in the asylum: (1) To the procurator of the king of the province of the domicile of the person placed. (2) To the procurator of the king of the province where the establishment is situated. These regulations are for both public and private asylums. Article 11. Two weeks after the person has been placed in a public or private asylum, there shall be addressed to the prefect, according to the last paragraph of article 8, a new certificate of the physician of the establishment, which shall confirm or rectify, as the case may be, the observations contained in the certificate, indicating the more or less frequent returns of attacks of insanity. Article 12. There must be in every establishment a register book, numbered and paragraphed by the mayor, upon which are inscribed the name, profession, and domicile of the persons placed in the establishment; the record of the sentence of irresponsibility, if it has been pronounced, and the name of the guardian; the date of admission, the name, profession, and domicile of the persons related or not related, who has asked for admission of the patient. Likewise there must be written in this book: (1) The physician's certificate which accompanies the request for admission. (2) The papers which the physician must make out according to articles 8 and 11. The physician shall enter in this book, at least once a month, the changes that have taken place in the mental state of each patient. This register must contain likewise the record of discharges and deaths. This register must be open for inspection of the persons who, according to article 4, have the right to visit the establishment; these persons must write their signatures and their observations, if any, in the book after every inspection. Article 13. Every person placed in the insane asylum, must be dismissed therefrom whenever the physicians of the estab lishment have declared, by entries in the register book mentioned in the preceding article, that the cure has been effected. In regard to a minor or irresponsible person, such direction of the physicians must immediately be made known to the person to whom it must be sent, and to the procurator of the king. Article 14. Even before the physicians have pronounced the cure effected, any person placed in an insane asylum shall cease to be retained, as soon as the dismissal is demanded by any of the persons mentioned below, namely: (1) The curator, named below in article 38, of the present law. (2) Husband and wife. (3) If neither husband nor wife exist, relations in the ascending line. (4) If there are no relations in the ascending line, those in the descending line. (5) The person who has signed the request for admission, unless a parent declares that this is being done without the consent of the family council. (6) Any person authorized by the family council. In case of dissension among relations of the ascending or descending line, the family council shall decide. Nevertheless, |