Observations on the Size and Construction of Lunatic Asylums

1860 ◽  
Vol 7 (35) ◽  
pp. 104-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Lalor
Keyword(s):  
Satisfactory Solution ◽  
The Public ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Public Approval ◽  
Lunatic Asylums ◽  
Satisfactory Answer ◽  
Enormous Number

It is only after much thinking, and with much hesitation, that I venture to advocate in the following pages, principles as to the size and construction of lunatic asylums, which I believe to be at variance with those upheld by the highest authorities on this subject; but the question how provision may be best made for the enormous number of lunatics now known to exist in every civilized country, is one of such importance, and still so far from having received a satisfactory answer, that it seems a matter of duty on the part of every one who has had favourable opportunities for considering the matter, to place his views before the public. In this, as in other questions, full and free discussion seems to offer the best chance for a speedy arrival at the truth, and though my views may not meet public approval, yet their publication may contribute to enquiry, and thus tend to a satisfactory solution of the question. I am of opinion, that asylums of large size are the best adapted for the curative and humane treatment of the insane, and whilst I am not prepared to say what limit should be put to the size of an asylum, I do not consider that Colney Hatch, which is the largest of our public asylums, would be too large, if its internal construction had been arranged so as to meet certain modifications in the principles of management, which, in my mind, would be advisable in all asylums, but which are still more requisite in those of large than of small size.

Character and Competence at the Top: Gerald Ford Becomes President and Pardons Richard Nixon

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Terry Newell
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Moral Character ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Trust In Government ◽  
The Public ◽  
Richard Nixon ◽  
Public Purpose ◽  
Approval Rating ◽  
Public Approval ◽  
Public Leaders

On August 9,1974, Gerald Ford took the oath as president when Richard Nixon resigned in the wake of Watergate.   Ford's inaugural remarks and the actions that followed, aimed at restoring trust in government and gaining the legitimacy he needed to confront national problems, rested on both his character and his leadership talent.  His public approval rating soared.  Thirty-one days later, Ford spoke to the nation again, announcing his pardon of the disgraced former president.  That speech and the actions connected to it also depended on Ford's character and leadership skills.  Yet, his approval plummeted, dooming his prospects to win the 1976 election. This one-month period offers important lessons for public leaders who want to both be good and do good.  Ford succeeded in the first speech and failed in the second.   The ability to articulate a transcendent public purpose, persuade the public in a compelling way, and master the art of building political support proved decisive in both cases.   Also decisive was his character and the way he sought to call forth the moral character of the nation.   

Is political engagement by constitutional monarchs compatible with democracy?

2021 ◽  
pp. 205789112199169
Author(s):  
Kana Inata
Keyword(s):  
Political Engagement ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Involvement ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Preferences ◽  
Public Approval ◽  
Do So

Constitutional monarchies have proved to be resilient, and some have made substantive political interventions even though their positions are mostly hereditary, without granted constitutional channels to do so. This article examines how constitutional monarchs can influence political affairs and what impact royal intervention can have on politics. I argue that constitutional monarchs affect politics indirectly by influencing the preferences of the public who have de jure power to influence political leaders. The analyses herein show that constitutional monarchs do not indiscriminately intervene in politics, but their decisions to intervene reflect the public’s preferences. First, constitutional monarchs with little public approval become self-restraining and do not attempt to assert their political preferences. Second, they are more likely to intervene in politics when the public is less satisfied about the incumbent government. These findings are illustrated with historical narratives regarding the political involvement of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand in the 2000s.

Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed to enquire into the State of Lunatic Asylums in Scotland, and the existing Law in reference to Lunatics and Lunatic Asylums in that part of the United Kingdom. 1857

1857 ◽  
Vol 3 (22) ◽  
pp. 548-566
Author(s):  
J. C. B.
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The State ◽  
Good Sense ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Lunatic Asylums

On few occasions has the great heart of the public been more deeply moved than by the recent revelations of the Scotch Lunacy Report. The report itself is a document remarkable not only for the information it contains, but for the soundness of opinions which it expresses, and for its general good sense, moderation, and justice. It is excellent, both in matter and manner, and is highly creditable not only to the whole of the Commissioners, whose industry in their vocation it illustrates, and whose opinions it enunciates, but it is so in the highest degree to the particular Commissioner to whom was entrusted the task of drawing it up, and whose enlightened views and wide knowledge on the subject of insanity, our associates will have no difficulty in recognising.

The Jamaica Lunatic Asylum

1860 ◽  
Vol 6 (32) ◽  
pp. 157-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. T. A.
Keyword(s):  
Lunatic Asylum ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Satisfactory Condition ◽  
Lunatic Asylums ◽  
Full Operation

Medical men and the non-professional members of the community interested in the welfare of the insane of this country, have, after many years' labor in the cause, succeeded in bringing about a comparatively satisfactory condition of the public and private asylums, and they may be forgiven the exhibition of a certain spirit of repose and self-gratulation. The mass of abuses has been hurled aside and the reformers of British lunatic asylums have only minor peccadilloes to seize upon, and the only prospect of more exciting work for them is to be found in an exploration of the condition of patients not in asylums. A Lunacy Commission armed with considerable and very elastic powers is likewise in full operation, which, although too small for all the functions rightly devolving upon it, can at least so supervise public asylums and licensed houses that irregularities of any magnitude can have but a short-lived existence.

The Jamaica Lunatic Asylum

1860 ◽  
Vol 6 (32) ◽  
pp. 157-167
Author(s):  
J. T. A.
Keyword(s):  
Lunatic Asylum ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Satisfactory Condition ◽  
Lunatic Asylums ◽  
Full Operation

Medical men and the non-professional members of the community interested in the welfare of the insane of this country, have, after many years' labor in the cause, succeeded in bringing about a comparatively satisfactory condition of the public and private asylums, and they may be forgiven the exhibition of a certain spirit of repose and self-gratulation. The mass of abuses has been hurled aside and the reformers of British lunatic asylums have only minor peccadilloes to seize upon, and the only prospect of more exciting work for them is to be found in an exploration of the condition of patients not in asylums. A Lunacy Commission armed with considerable and very elastic powers is likewise in full operation, which, although too small for all the functions rightly devolving upon it, can at least so supervise public asylums and licensed houses that irregularities of any magnitude can have but a short-lived existence.

The Maintenance of Pauper Lunatics

1897 ◽  
Vol 43 (182) ◽  
pp. 672-673
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
County Council ◽  
Lunatic Asylum ◽  
Early Age ◽  
The West ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cumberland County ◽  
Definite Answer ◽  
Lunatic Asylums ◽  
The Government

The President of the Local Government Board received a deputation from the County Councils Association in reference to the growing burden imposed upon the rates by the increase of the number of persons confined in lunatic asylums. The deputation consisted of Sir John Hibbert, Lord Thring, Mr. Hobhouse, M.P., Sir E. Edgeumbe (Dorset), Mr. M. F. Blackiston (Clerk to the Staffordshire County Council), Mr. F. C. Hulton (Clerk to the Lancashire County Council), Mr. C. B. Hodgson (Clerk to the Cumberland County Council), Mr. Trevor Edwards (Solicitor to the West Riding County Council), and the Rev C. Royds, Mr. J. Brierley, Mr. B. Carver, and Mr. T. Scholfield, members of the Lancashire Asylums Board. The deputation recommended that the grant of 4s. a week at present given to Boards of Guardians to pay for pauper lunatics in County Asylums, Registered Hospitals, and Licensed Houses should also be given for chronic pauper lunatics (whom they defined as harmless lunatics), who are maintained in workhouse wards under special regulations and to the satisfaction of the Commissioners in Lunacy; that, as it is not desirable that idiots (idiots and imbeciles from birth or early age) should be treated in a lunatic asylum, the 4s. grant should, wherever idiots are kept at the public expense, be payable in regard to such idiots to the authority maintaining them to the satisfaction of the Commissioners in Lunacy; that each County Council should be required to appoint visitors of those idiots in respect of whom the 4s. grant is made, and who are kept in places other than lunatic asylums; and that it is not desirable to express an opinion on the question of extending the 4s. grant to idiots boarded out or maintained at home. Mr. Chaplin, in reply, said he was not prepared to give a definite answer as to whether he could advise the Government to bring in a Bill to give effect to the recommendations. He required time to consider the matter more fully, and especially to enquire how the Boards of Guardians throughout the country would be affected if the proposals of the County Councils Association became law.

scholarly journals Does public approval shape news? Competing legitimacies and news headlines in the Philippines from Ramos to Aquino III

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-55
Author(s):  
Gabrielle Ann S. Mendoza ◽  
◽  
Rogelio Alicor L. Panao ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Chief Executive ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
The Public ◽  
Approval Ratings ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Press ◽  
Public Approval ◽  
News Headlines

Can a president’s high public approval, vis-à-vis competing coordinate institutions, shape press coverage of political events? Testing theories of executive scandals, this paper argues that in the context of Philippine presidential democracy, presidential satisfaction shapes the production of political events more than the presence of other policy issues competing for broadsheet space. Using logistic regression models to analyse the news headlines appearing in two major broadsheets in the Philippines from 1992 to 2016, the study finds that presidents whose approval ratings are low compared to Congress are an easy target for the opposition and a much more attractive topic for sensational news by the press. With a much smaller circle of supporters for the president, there is also less risk for the opposition and the press collaborating or colluding in the production of political events. The press, in contrast, tends to be conservative in reporting political events when the public mood is generally supportive of the Philippine chief executive.

scholarly journals THE PUBLIC LAW DIMENSION OF PUBLIC AUTHORITY LIABILITY

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-158
Author(s):  
Tom Cornford
Keyword(s):  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Tort Law ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Public Authority ◽  
Satisfactory Solution ◽  
The Public ◽  
English Law ◽  
The Law ◽  
Consultation Paper

In this paper I endorse the basic assumption that informed the Law Commission’s consultation paper on Administrative Redress of 2008, namely that the problem of administrative liability in English law can only be understood by examining both its tortious and its public law dimensions and that a satisfactory solution would involve a form of liability that straddled the public/private divide. In support of this view, I advance a rationale for a form of liability that involves reparation for harms resulting from acts unlawful as a matter of public law and argue that the form of liability that the rationale supports would inevitably impinge upon the territory currently occupied by the law of tort. I then proceed to criticise the views of scholars who have recently argued that a satisfactory law of public authority liability can be arrived at by the use of the concepts of orthodox tort law alone.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTASI METODE EVEN-RODEH CODE UNTUK KOMPRESI KITAB UNDANG-UNDANG HUKUM PIDANA (KUHP) BERBASIS ANDROID

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nopiyah Belia Batubara ◽  
Taronisokhi Zebua
Keyword(s):  
Memory Performance ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Compression Process ◽  
Compression Technique ◽  
Memory Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Large Material

Smartphones in addition to being a smartphone communication tool also functions as a tool for finding information. One application that is currently widely used by students and the public is KUHP application that run in mobile. KUHP application is an application that contains material of criminal laws. The KUHP application has large material and is stored in the application database after it is installed. The large size of the database of the Criminal Code application causes the need for large memory space at mobile. This has become one of the causes of smartphone memory performance to be reduced and slow. Compression technique can be used as a solution to the problem above. Compression aims to compress large data sizes into smaller ones, so that the required storage space decreases. This study describes how to do the compression process of the KUHP application material based on the Even Rodeh Code algorithm. Based on the results of tests conducted to compress 280 bits of data, it was found that the size of the data after being compressed was 176 bits, with  compression ratio is 62.8%, ratio of compression is 1.59 bits, and redundancy is 37.2%.Keywords: Compression, KUHP Aplication, Even Rodeh Code, Database

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