3. Criminal Lunatics.*

THE EXPENSES OF CRIMINAL LUNATICS CALCULATIONS ORDER, 1902. DATED APRIL 3, 1902.

1902. No. 323.

BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT-GENERAL AND GENERAL
GOVERNOR OF IRELAND.

Cadogan.

In pursuance of the powers conferred on us by Section 3 of the Lunacy (Ireland) Act, 1901,† and of every other power in that behalf enabling us, we do, with the approval of the Treasury, make the following regulations, that is to say :

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1. There shall be kept in every district lunatic asylum in Ireland, in addition to the books and registers prescribed by "The Asylum Accounts Order, 1899," "The Asylum Books and Records Order, 1900,"§ or other Order or Orders of the Local Government Board or the inspectors of lunatics for the time being in force, a book to be called the "register of criminal lunatics." in which shall be entered under the specified heads the particulars regarding every criminal lunatic, as defined by "The Lunacy (Ireland) Act, 1901," who shall be resident in or admitted to the asylum on and after the 1st day of April, 1902. The following shall be the form of register :

*The Order in Council of December 13, 1889, making Regulations as to the removal of Criminal Lunatics from and their return to British Possessions, is printed under the title "Colonial Prisoner."

+ 1 Edw. 7. c. 17.

Printed at p. 47 above.

This Order, which is not a Statutory Rule, being made under the provisions of the Asylum Accounts Order, is published in "Dublin Gazette," April 3, 1900, pp. 480-509.

2. A register of the sums received or recovered in pursuance of the 16th Section of the Act 38 & 39 Vict., cap. 67,* on behalf of criminal lunatics other than moneys provided by Parliament (to be called the "register of sums received for criminal lunatics"), shall also be kept, in which shall be entered under the specified heads particulars of all such receipts from time to time. The following shall be the form of the register:

3. These registers shall be kept in addition to, and not in substitution for, such other registers as are prescribed by the Orders of the Local Government Board and the inspectors of lunatics above referred to.

4. The entries of particulars respecting criminal lunatics hitherto made in "the general register of patients" shall be continued, with the addition that in the "observations" column shall be noted in red ink opposite the name of each criminal lunatic such observations or references to the folio in the "register of criminal lunatics" as may be necessary to indicate the date on which the patient ceases to be a criminal lunatie.

5. As soon after the 1st day of April, 1903, and every year thereafter, as the accounts for the year ending 31st March immediately preceding are closed, the clerk of the asylum shall make out from "the register of criminal lunatics" and the "register of sums received for criminal lunatics" a return for submission to the auditor of the asylum accounts in the following form:

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* The Lunatic Asylums (Ireland) Act, 1875.

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6. The final sheet of the return for each asylum shall bear a certificate in the following terms for signature by the auditor of the asylum accounts:

'Having carefully examined the foregoing return, I certify that it has been prepared in accordance with the regulations in that behalf made by the Lord Lieutenant with the approval of the Treasury; that the gross average cost per patient during the year ending 31st March, 19 which has been arrived at by dividing the daily average number of all patients resident into the gross expenditure during the year, including repayments in respect of loans and all other charges, and without any deductions, has been £ 8. d.; that the total cost of the criminal lunatic for the total collective number of days' maintenance during the year, as shown at foot of column 6, was £ s. d.; that the total amount received in respect of such lunatics other than moneys provided by Parliament, as set forth at foot of column 9, was £ 8. d.; and that the committee of management of the district lunatic asylum is entitled to the difference between the two lastmentioned sums for the year ending 31st March, 19 being

pounds

shillings and pence (£ 8. d.), in pursuance of the provisions of the Lunacy (Ireland) Act, 1901, Section 3.

Dated this

day of

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Local Government Auditor."

7. The names of the criminal lunatics included in this return shall not be shown in the capitation grant return in respect of the period during which they are detained as criminal lunatics.

8. The resident medical superintendent in each case shall forward the return, when completed and signed by the auditor, to the office of the General Prisons Board, Dublin Castle, whereupon that Board shall issue a paying order in favour of the treasurer of the asylum for the time being for the amount certified as due to the committee of management.

9. As soon as possible after the foregoing return shall have been certified by the auditor each year, the clerk of the asylum shall strike out of the register of criminal lunatics, by drawing a line with red ink, the name of every criminal lunatic, and the entries respecting him or her, who shall have died or been discharged, or whose sentence shall have expired between the 1st day of April and the 31st day of March (both inclusive), in the year to which the return relates.

10. When a patient ceases to be a criminal lunatic, either by reason of the expiration of his or her sentence or otherwise, and such patient continues to be detained in the asylum as an ordinary patient, the clerk of the asylum shall thereupon make such entries respecting such patient in the "general register of patients," and in such other prescribed registers and returns as may be necessary, in order that such patient may thenceforth be dealt with as an ordinary patient and not as a 'criminal lunatic."

Given at His Majesty's Castle of Dublin this 3rd day of April, 1902.

By His Excellency's Command,

J. B. Dougherty.