Psychiatry and the Report of the Royal Commission

1928 ◽  
Vol 74 (304) ◽  
pp. 35-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Langdon-Down
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Made In

The Royal Commission on Lunacy and Mental Disorder was set up in July, 1924, to inquire into a matter of urgent public importance, that is to say: (1)The existing law and administrative machinery in England and Wales in connection with the certification, detention and care of persons who are, or who are alleged to be, of unsound mind.(2)The extent to which provision is or should be made in England and Wales for the treatment without certification of persons suffering from mental disorder and to make recom mendations.

New World of Mental Health Legislation England and Wales David Jolley and Reinhard Heun

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
D. Jolley ◽  
R. Heun
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Community Treatment ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Mental Health Legislation ◽  
Health Legislation

After eight years of tortured negotiations between government, professional psychiatrists and lay pressure groups, England and Wales will begin to use new Mental Health Legislation November 2008. This will not be a new Mental Health Act, but a substantial modification of the 1983 act. There are nine key changes:1.A single definition of mental disorder: ‘any disorder of mind or brain’.2.Criteria for compulsion: ‘appropriate medical treatment’ test.3.Age-appropriate services: special arrangements for under 18 years.4.Professional roles: approved clinicians and responsible clinicians (non-medical).5.Nearest relative: recognises Civil Partnerships, allows displacement.6.Supervised Community Treatment Orders.7.Mental health Review Tribunal: unified.8.Advocacy: Independent Mental Health Advocates.9.ECT: new safeguards.The Code of Practice identifies five key principles:1.Purpose - to minimise adverse effects of Mental Disorder.2.Least Restriction.3.Respect - diverse needs, values and circumstances.4.Participation - involving patient in planning, developing and reviewing treatment and care.5.Effectiveness, efficiency and equity - optimal use of resources.Earlier drafts had been described as: ‘little more than a Public Oder Bill dressed up as Mental Health legislation’; ‘ethically unworkable and practically unworkable’. Much of the dissent related to suggestions that people with Personality Disorder behaving in a dangerous or antisocial way should be subject to compulsory detention. Fears included breach of liberties and Human Rights and transformation of Mental Health Services disadvantaging people with major mental illnesses.

The Man in the Background: The Search for Maecenas

Antichthon ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 54-79
Author(s):  
Ronald T. Ridley
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Large Role ◽  
Mistaken Identity ◽  
Augustan Era ◽  
Ara Pacis ◽  
Made In

AbstractSince the late sixteenth century parts of the ‘imperial frieze’ of the Ara Pacis have been known. The most striking figure in the background of the southern frieze is that long thought to be a portrait of Maecenas, the Etruscan prince and literary patron of the Augustan era. This article attempts three things: to discover 1.Where and how this identification originated,2.What evidence there now is for that identification, and3.What alternative identifications can be offered.The bibliography is substantial, the trail is complicated and highly paradoxical, and fantasy has often played a large role. The ‘evidence’ in play for centuries has sometimes evaporated into thin air. The identities proposed are, in fact, numerous. Not of least interest is the hidden or mistaken identity, in turn, of crucial modern scholars. A method is proposed at last for evaluating the identifications of this background portrait, including obvious comparison with other background figures. This analysis emphasizes how much is still not known about the most famous piece of Augustan art. An attempt is nevertheless made in the last analysis, to support what can be offered, in the light of current understanding, as the most plausible identification.

The records of the Charity Commissions a source for urban history

Urban History ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 31-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Grady
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Urban History ◽  
Effective Utilization ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Public ◽  
Charity Commission ◽  
Public Record ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Made In

Officially sponsored investigation of charities has a long history encompassing the seventeenth-and eighteenth-century commissions issued under the Statutes of Charitable Uses of 1597 and 1601, and the brief national inquiry made for the Gilbert returns of 1787–8. It was in the nineteenth century, however, that the first detailed general surveys of English and Welsh charities were made. In August 1818, amidst revived interest in the more effective utilization of charitable funds, the Brougham Commission was appointed by parliament to examine the state of charitable trusts for educational purposes in England. With the renewal and widening of its powers in the following year, it spent almost two decades investigating charitable trusts of all types in England and Wales. The Commission expired in 1837 but, after lengthy vacillation, parliament set up a permanent body in 1853. Like its predecessor, this new commission began collecting up-to-date information about charitable trusts; a task it still performs today. The invaluable products of the two commissions are several voluminous series of reports and digests printed in Parliamentary Papers between 1819 and 1913, and extensive records dating from 1819 held by the Charity Commission and the Public Record Office. This article discusses these sources and their value to the urban historian.

The Report of the Royal Commission on Lunacy and Mental Disorder

1926 ◽  
Vol 72 (299) ◽  
pp. 597-616
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Large Measure ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Future ◽  
Legal Restrictions ◽  
The Many

The lively hope expressed by our President at the Association's Commemoration Dinner on July 15 that the Report of the Royal Commission would recommend the abolition of the many anomalies and the relaxation of the legal restrictions which had for nearly a century handicapped the progress of psychiatry in England and Wales, has in a large measure been realized now that the Report is available to anyone who chooses to apply at H.M. Stationery Office—price 3s. 6d. At the same function the Rt. Hon. Hugh Macmillan, K.C., in a witty and cheerful speech, struck a vein of hopefulness respecting the future of psychiatry, as did also the speech of Sir Arthur Robinson.

scholarly journals The interface between general and forensic psychiatry: the present day

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 359-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivek Khosla ◽  
Phil Davison ◽  
Harvey Gordon ◽  
Verghese Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Psychiatry ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Adult Psychiatry ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Uk

SummaryWith the subspecialisation of psychiatry in the UK, clinicians encounter problems at the interfaces between specialties. These can lead to tension between clinicians, which can be unhelpful to the clinical care of the patient. This article focuses on the interface between general and forensic psychiatry in England and Wales. The pattern of mental health services in England and Wales differs to an extent from those in Scotland, Northern Ireland and in the Republic of Ireland. Consequently, the interface between general and forensic psychiatry is subject to varying influences. Important interface issues include: the definition of a ‘forensic patient’; the remit and organisation of services; resources; clinical responsibility; and care pathways. This article also discusses a general overview of how to improve collaboration between forensic and general adult psychiatric services.Learning Objectives•Develop an understanding of important issues at the forensic/general adult psychiatry interface.•Be aware of areas of conflict that may arise at the forensic/general adult psychiatry interface.•Be aware of options for optimum cooperation at the interface.

Hitachi Model XMA-5 Electron Probe Microanalyzer

1968 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 308-309
Author(s):  
Tomura ◽  
Okano ◽  
Hara
Keyword(s):  
Electron Probe ◽  
High Performance ◽  
List Type ◽  
X Rays ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Fluorescence Excitation ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Electron Probe Microanalyzer ◽  
Scientific Instrumentation ◽  
Made In

The recent advancement in scientific instrumentation has been phenomenal. This is particularity true in the electron probe microanalyzer field. This paper describes the improvements made in the Hitachi Model XMA-5 Electron Probe Microanalyzer to achieve high performance.1.X-ray spectroscopy1-1.It is now possible to analyze a wide variety of elements including ultra light elements in minute concentrations with the advent of an increasing number of dispersing elements and high detectability.1-2.A linear crystal drive and direct wavelength read-out (with respect to the crystal) is employed in the spectrometer to assure simultaneous analyses of up to three elements by using three of the six crystals provided. For correction of absorbed X-rays and fluorescence excitation and with due consideration of the angular distribution of the characteristic X-rays, an X-ray take off angle of 38° (electron probe is incident vertically on the specimen surface) was adopted.

scholarly journals New Radio Observations Of ‘Old Faithful’

1996 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 349-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.W. Porcas ◽  
A.R. Patnaik ◽  
T.W.B. Muxlow ◽  
M.A. Garrett ◽  
D. Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Mass Distribution ◽  
Position Angle ◽  
Gravitational Lens ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Lens System ◽  
The West ◽  
Optical Images ◽  
New Radio ◽  
Made In

We present new arcsecond-scale radio images of the gravitational lens system 0957+561 A, B. Observations at 1.6GHz were made in 1991 October with the VLA in A/B configuration with a resolution of 1.5 arcsec (Fig. 1, left). The lowest contour is 0.37 mJy/beam. In addition to the compact A and B image components, and the familiar NE/SW radio double-lobe structure surrounding image A, this map shows two interesting new features: (a)a long, thin feature extending south and west from the NE lobe, some 10 arcsec in extent, confirming the detection by Avruch et al. (1994). It is reminiscent of the ‘arc’ features seen in optical images of lensing clusters, and hopefully can be used to constrain models of the cluster mass distribution. (For the superstitious, one can note that the position angle of the arc, 17°, is identical to that of the VLBI jet in image B, a few arcseconds to the west.)(b)a low-level extension of the B image in the NW direction. We are not aware that this has been seen before. A possible interpretation of this feature is a continuation of the jet emission seen in VLBI images of B, whose counterpart in A is seen in higher resolution maps. The change of position angle between the VLBI and arcsec-scale jets would indeed have opposite parities in the A and B images.

An Estimate of the Future Population of England and Wales

1960 ◽  
Vol 16 (02) ◽  
pp. 85-111
Author(s):  
J. R. Ford ◽  
C. M. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Population Change ◽  
Population Projections ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Separate Treatment ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Separate Population ◽  
Future Population

In 1944 the Royal Commission on Population was set up in order to determine the probable consequences of population trends then current. In order to do this they prepared a range of sixteen separate population projections for Great Britain based on various combinations of assumptions as to mortality, fertility (and marriage), and migration. The method used, in which each component of population change i.e. birth, death and migration receives separate treatment, is generally known as the component method. This distinguishes it from cruder methods based on the assumption that the total numbers in a population follow some mathematical formula.Since the Royal Commission reported, this method has continued to be used in preparing what may perhaps be described as the ‘official’ projections of the population of England and Wales.

scholarly journals Time to amend Section 135

1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 640-641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Cutajar ◽  
Michele Hampson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Living Alone ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
Justice Of The Peace

Section 135 of the Mental Health Act (1983) allows a Justice of the Peace, on information provided on oath by an approved social worker, to issue a warrant allowing any constable named in the warrant to enter, if need be by force, any premises in which there is reasonable cause to suspect that a person believed to be suffering from a mental disorder: (a)has been, or is being, ill-treated, neglected or kept otherwise than under proper control: or(b)being unable to care for himself, is living alone in any such place, and, if thought fit, to remove him to a place of safety.

scholarly journals Arizona Radiocarbon Dates VII

Radiocarbon ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Vance Haynes ◽  
Donald C. Grey ◽  
Paul E. Damon ◽  
Richmond Bennett
Keyword(s):  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Made In

The C14 measurements reported here were made in this laboratory between November 15, 1965 and June 15, 1966. Sample descriptions are classified as follows: I.Geochemical SamplesII.Geologic-Paleoclimatic SamplesIII.Early Man-Alluvial Stratigraphy SamplesIV.Archaeologic Samples

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