Biennial Report of the Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities of the State of IllinoisThe Board, 1890 - Public welfare |
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acres admitted almshouse is located amount paid annum appropriation Av.No awaiting trial beds and bedding blind buildings are estimated cells cents a day clean cleanly comfortably heated committed Cook County corridor cost for dieting cost of maintenance county almshouse county pays fifty day for feeding Deaf and Dumb discharged DuPage county Effingham Elgin ending September epileptics erected farm contains feeding prisoners females floors food furnished furniture heated by stoves hundred dollars idiots Illinois inmates appeared inmates present inmates were insane inmates were present insane department Insane Hospital institution Iroquois Jacksonville jail expenses jail was found July June 12 June 30 Kane county Kankakee keeper receives land and buildings LaSalle county last visit light and ventilation males miles moderately well clothed Northern Hospital out-door relief paid for dieting patients paupers prisoners present prisoners were present receives a salary Reform School rooms serving sentence Soldiers thousand dollars Total
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Page 57 - A lunatic or insane person, without lucid intervals, shall not be found guilty of any crime or misdemeanor with which he may be charged ; Provided, the act so charged as criminal shall have been committed in the condition of insanity.
Page 116 - Upon the return of the verdict, the same shall be recorded at large by the clerk, and if it appears that the person is insane, and is a fit person to be sent to a state hospital for the insane...
Page 57 - State shall certify to any warden or other officer in charge, that any convict therein is insane, it shall be the duty of the said warden, or other officer in charge, to make immediately a full examination into the condition of such convict, and if fully satisfied that he is insane, the said warden, or other officer in charge where said convict is confined shall forthwith cause such convict to be transferred to the...
Page 7 - These twelve institutions are: (1) The Northern Hospital' for the Insane, at Elgin; (2) the Eastern Hospital for the Insane, at Kankakee: (3) the Central Hospital for the Insane, at Jacksonville; (4) the Southern Hospital for the Insane, at Anna; (5) the Asylum for Insane Criminals, at Chester: (6) the Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, at Jacksonville; (7) the Institution for the Education of the Blind, at Jacksonville: (8) the Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children, at Lincoln: (9)...
Page 57 - If, after the verdict of guilty, and before judgment pronounced, such person become lunatic or insane, then no judgment shall be given while such lunacy or insanity shall continue. And if, after judgment and before execution of the sentence, such...
Page 22 - SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That there be and is hereby appropriated, for the purpose of...
Page 58 - House of Correction at Ionia, and the superintendent of the Detroit House of Correction shall, with the consent of the board of trustees, or board of inspectors or managers of their respective institutions, proceed to transfer to the said Asylum for Insane Criminals all insane criminals or discharged convict insane found in such institutions. The expense of the maintenance of such patients shall, from the date of their transfer, be chargeable to...
Page 86 - On the main floor, on the north side of the building, are two insane departments, one for each sex, one at the east and one at the west end of the hall.
Page 57 - The verdict of the jury must be entered upon the minutes, and thereupon the court must make and cause to be entered an order reciting the fact of such inquiry and the result thereof, and when it is found that the defendant is insane, the order must direct that he be taken to a State hospital for the insane, and there kept in safe confinement until his reason is restored.
Page 80 - It provides no method for ascertaining the number of insane persons in the state, their condition, or their needs. Those who have been adjudged to be insane cannot be further traced, nor their condition and treatment known, when once they have been discharged from the hospital; but they are left entirely without legal protection. Every one of these counts in the indictment against the present statute can be sustained by abundant evidence, drawn from the statute itself, from the legislation of other...