LUNATICS TO BE REGARDED AS DEAD.
DIVORCE COMMISSION EVIDENCE,
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.
,-■■."■' London, October 25. Giving evidence before the Royal Commission on Divorce, Dr. T. S. Cloustoh, late Physician Superintendent at the Royal Asylum, Morningside, Edinburgh, and Lecturer on Mental Diseases at Edinburgh University, said criminal lunatics should be divorced; also '' that . where insanity is,incurable the patient should be regarded as legally dead.
Dr. Robert Jones, Medical Superintendent to the London County Council Asylum at Claybury, Woodford, Essox, was emphatic in the opinion that there should, be divorce from incurables and persons suffering from alcoholic insanity. Thero were 70,000 married persons confined in asylums.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 958, 27 October 1910, Page 5
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104LUNATICS TO BE REGARDED AS DEAD. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 958, 27 October 1910, Page 5
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