mission shall deem it necessary to more conveniently care for the insane in the various hospitals, it may change the limits of such hospital districts. When a new state hospital shall be estab lished, they shall again divide the state into hospital districts. Before any such change or re-establishment of hospital districts shall be made, the board of managers of each such hospital shall be notified by the commission that they may be heard in regard thereto at a specified time and place. Such hospital districts shall be so defined that the number of patients in each district shall be in proportion, as nearly as practicable, to the accommodations which are or may be provided by the state hospital or hospitals within such district. [L. 1890, ch. 126, § 1. This act created a board for the establishment of state insane asylum districts and gave them the power to divide the state into districts. Such board consisted of the president of the state board of charities, the comptroller of the state and the commissioners in lunacy. Since the passage of that act, the power of the state board of charities has been materially changed, and their supervision over state hospitals has been placed with the commission in lunacy. We have, therefore, provided by the revision that the commission in lunacy be given the power formerly vested in such state board of charities. We have omitted the temporary provision contained in § 1, and only preserved such part as is now in force.] § 11. Change of hospital districts and reassignment of patients. When a change or re-establishment of state hospital districts shall be made, or a new state hospital district created, the commission shall make a report thereof, designating the counties included within each district affected thereby, and file the same with the secretary of state, and send a copy to the man. agers and superintendent of each state hospital, and to each judge of a court of record, each county superintendent of the poor, and each county clerk in the state, to be filed in his office. [L. 1890, ch. 126, § 2, with such changes as were necessary in striking out the temporary matter.] 12. Record of medical examiners.- Any physician who receives a certificate as a medical examiner in lunacy shall file such original certificate in the office of the clerk of the county where he resides, and forward a certified copy thereof to the office of the commission within ten days after such certificate is granted. The commission shall keep in its office a record showing the name, residence and certificate of each duly qualified medical examiner, and shall immediately file in its office, when received, each duly certified copy of a medical examiner's certifi cate, and advise the examiner of its receipt and filing. No examiner shall be qualified until he has received from the commission an acknowledgment of the receipt and filing of his certificate. [This section is a part of L. 1889, ch. 283, § 7, as amended by L. 1890, ch. 273.] § 13. Record of patients. The commission shall keep in its office, and accessible only to the commissioners, their secretary and clerk, except by the consent of the commission or one of its members, or an order of a judge of a court of record, a record showing: 1. The name, residence, sex, age, nativity, occupation, civil condition and date of commitment of every patient in custody in the several institutions for the care and treatment of insane persons in the state, and the name and residence of the person making the petition for commitment, and of the persons signing such medical certificate, and of the judge making the order of commitment. 2. The name of the institution where each patient is confined, the date of admission, and whether brought from home or another institution, and if from another institution, the name of such institution, by whom brought, and the patient's condition. 3. The date of the discharge of each patient from such institu tion since the fifteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and eightynine, and whether recovered, improved or unimproved, and to whose care committed. 4. If transferred, for what cause, and to what institution; and if dead, the date and cause of death. [L. 1889, ch. 283, § 8, as amended by L. 1890, ch. 273, without change in substance.] § 14. Institutions to furnish information to commission.-The authorities of the several institutions for the insane shall furnish to the commission the facts mentioned in the last preceding section, and such other obtainable facts relating thereto as the commission may, from time to time, in the just and reasonable discharge of its duties, require of them, with the opinion of the superintendent thereon, if requested. The superintendent or person in charge of such institutions, whether public or private, must, within ten days after the admission of an insane person thereto, cause a true copy of the medical certificate and order on which such person shall have been received, to be made and forwarded to the office of the commission; and when a patient shall be discharged, transferred or shall die therein, such superintendent or person in charge shall, within three days thereafter, send the information to the office of the commission, in accordance with the forms prescribed by it. [L. 1889, ch. 283, § 9, as amended by L. 1890, ch. 273, without material change in substance.] § 15. Commission to provide for the prospective wants of the insane. The commission shall provide sufficient accommodations for the prospective wants of the poor and indigent insane of the state. To prevent overcrowding in the state hospitals, it shall recommend to the legislature the establishment of other state hospitals, in such parts of the state as in their judg ment will best meet the requirements of such insane. It shall also furnish to the legislature in each year, an estimate of the probable number of patients who will become inmates of the respective state hospitals during the year beginning October first next ensuing, and the cost of all the additional buildings and equipments, if any, which will be required to carry out the provisions of this chapter relating to the care, custody and treatment of the poor and indigent insane of the state. No money shall be expended by the managers of a state hospital for the erection of additional buildings, or for unusual repairs or improvements of state hospitals, except upon plans and specifications to be approved by the commission. The cost of such buildings as are to be occupied by patients erected on the grounds of existing state hospitals, including the necessary equipment for heating, lighting, ventilating, fixtures and furniture, shall, in no case exceed the proportion of five hundred and fifty dollars per capita for the patients to be accommodated therein. No municipality of the state shall have the power to modify or change plans or specifications for the erection, repair or improvement of state hospital buildings or the plumbing or sewerage connected therewith. [L. 1890, ch. 126, §§ 10-12, without change, except in form and phraseology. The sentence relating to the approval of plans by the commission is taken from L. 1894, ch. 358, p. 719, par. 1. The provision relating to the cost of buildings is new, as is also the last sentence.] § 16. Director of the pathological institute.-The commission shall, after a special civil service examination therefor, appoint a director of the pathological institute, who shall perform, under the direction of the commission, such duties relating to pathological research as may be required for all of the state hospitals for the insane. His office and laboratory shall be in the city of New York. He shall receive an annual salary to be fixed by the commission, subject to the approval of the governor. [New, but see L. 1895, ch. 693, and L. 1874, ch. 446, tit. III, § 4; R. S., 8th ed., p. 2163.] ARTICLE II. Institutions for the Care, Treatment and Custody of the Insane. Section 30. State hospitals for the poor and indigent insane. 31. Managers of state hospitals and their terms of office. 32. Appointment and removal of managers. 33. General powers and duties of boards of managers. 35. General powers and duties of superintendent. 37. Monthly meetings of superintendents. 38. Salaries of officers and wages of employes. 39. Monthly estimates of expenses; contingent fund. 40. Powers and duties of treasurer. 42. Actions to recover moneys due the hospital. 43. General powers and duties of the steward. 44. Purchases. 45. Official oath. 46. Actions against commissioners in lunacy, or officers 47. Private institutions for the insane. § 30. State hospitals for the poor and indigent insane.-There shall continue to be the following hospitals for the care and treatment of the poor and indigent insane of the state which are hereby declared to be corporations; but other insane persons, who are residents of the state, may be admitted when there is room therein for them: 1. Utica State hospital, at the city of Utica, in the county of Oneida. 2. Willard State hospital, in the town of Ovid, county of Sen eca. |
