Medical certificates of lunacy, 1890.

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Medical certificates of lunacy, 1890.

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This series consists of true copies of medical certificates of lunacy for each person admited to a mental health facility. A standard form promulgated by the Commission in Lunacy, shortly after its creation, signed and attested to by a legally qualified examiner, the certificate provides: patient name, sex, nativity, color, occupation, cause of illness, relevant family history, the basis for the certification of insanity, the name of the institution, and the date of admission. This volume is the first of what was presumably an ongoing series that covered the commission's tenure through 1912. The existence and location of subsequent volumes is unknown.

0.5 cu. ft. (1 volume)

New York State Archives

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New York (State). State Commission in Lunacy

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The State Commission in Lunacy was established pursuant to Chapter 283, Laws of 1889 (as amended by Chapter 273, Laws of 1890) and empowered to license, regulate and investigate public and private institutions that provided for the care of the state's mentally ill. It was charged with investigating the care and treatment of patients, the condition of physical facilities and the management of all such institutions; and establishing rules and regulations it deemed necessary and/or desirable to ins...