One of the most picturesque figures at the Costers' donkey, show at the Crystal Mace was 51 r. Henry Croft, the "Pearly lving." His clothes were decorated with 20,300 buttons, of which GOOO were 011 the coat. Should insanity be a ground for divorco is a question that has been engaging the 'attention of the Ttnyal Commission on Divorce. Medical exports were strongly in favour of granting divorco in cases of incurable insanity. The general opinion was expressed by Dr. Robert Jones, lecturer 011 mental diseases,. St. Bartholomew's Hospital, who pointed out that insanity deprived a sufferer of his liberty, of his civil rights, -social,, financial, political, and even 'of domestic rights, ana a person - married to a lunatic .was for all practical and legal purposes, a dead person. The marriage contract was ended by death, and should similarly, and for tho same reason, be ended by confirmed insanity. -Three..years-should determino the possibility of curable insanity. .
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1001, 16 December 1910, Page 10
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156Page 10 Advertisements Column 1 Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1001, 16 December 1910, Page 10
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