Necessity of registering the insane, 150.--Large number of insane at
present unprotected, 151.--Legal advantages of registration,
151.--Desirability of correct statistics of insanity, 152.--Lord
Shaftesbury's evidence on this point, 152.--Registration as a means of
discovering the existence and condition of lunatics,
152.--Registration would promote early treatment, 153.--Should be
accompanied by visitation, 153.--Enactment necessary to regulate the
sending of lunatics abroad, 153.--Practice pursued in Sardinia,
154.--Suggestions offered, 155.--All patients removed uncured from
asylums ought to have the place of their removal reported,
155.--Objections raised to registration, 156.--Their validity
examined, 156.--Principle of a compulsory registration and visitation
of all lunatics recognized in Belgium, 158.--English enactments
respecting 'single' patients, 159.--Their failure, 159.--Lunatics
secluded under the name of 'nervous' patients, 160.--Lord
Shaftesbury's observations on defects in the Lunacy Laws respecting
'single' cases, 161.--Clauses to Act, proposed by his Lordship, to
deal with 'nervous' patients, 161.--Clauses open to some objections,
162.--Lord Shaftesbury's proposal to report every 'nervous' patient,
163.--Compulsory powers of Lunacy Act defective, 164.--Suggestions
made, 164.--Proposition to report all lunatics to a district medical
officer, who should visit, 165.--Additional certificate granted by
this officer, 165.--Lunatics well protected, 165.--Modification of
present form of certificates of insanity, 166.--Objections to two
forms of certificates, 166.--Determination of the nature of
certificate to be given, 167.--Clause in Scotch Asylums Act respecting
'single' cases, 167.--Need of mitigated certificates and of
intermediate asylums for certain cases of mental disturbance, 168.