as fully as possible. Also any changes in speech, habitual or frequent repetition of the same word or phrases, disturbance of vision, alteration of handwriting, difficulty of walking or change of gait, fainting or loss of consciousness, convulsive attacks, paralysis in any form, impairment of any muscle or set of muscles, or any twitching of limb or single muscles. Any fixed or habitual movements or attitudes ? 50. Has the patient shown any appreciation of the changed mental condition? 51. Has suicide or violence to others been threatened or attempted? If so, in what way? 52. State fully any other facts bearing on the case, in the patient's past or present history. 53. What physicians have seen the patient during this attack? Give name and address in each instance ? 54. How is the patient to be maintained at hospital? (By private means or as a municipal charge.) 55. Name post office and telegraphic address of relative or friend to whom letters are to be written or information sent? address. I,.... Person giving above history sign name and full make oath and say that to the best of my knowledge the foregoing particulars are correctly stated; and I hereby request that the above named.... .whom I saw at. .day of ..(being on the. within fourteen days from this date) be received as a person of unsound mind as a patient into the Nova Scotia Hospital. Degree of relationship (if any) of person giving history, or other circumstances in connection with the patient. (EXTRACT FROM CHAP. 44, REVISED STATUTES OF NOVA Section 7.-(1). When there is accommodation in the hospital, the Commissioner of Public Works and Mines shall, on application, grant orders for the admission of patients. (2). He may in any case refuse to admit to the hospital, (a) Persons who are idiotic, or (b) Epileptic persons who are insane, but have not shown signs of violent insanity, or (c) Insane persons who are not suicidal or dangerous to the life and property of others, or (d) Persons who from long-standing insanity are not likely to be benefitted by treatment in the hospital. Section 8. Before any person is forwarded for admission to the hospital a statement of particulars in the form A in the schedule shall be furnished to the Medical Superintendent, and his answer and approval shall be received. If Section 9.-(1.) The statement of particulars shall be signed and sworn to before a Justice of the Peace, by the husband or wife or by a relative of the insane person. not signed by such husband, wife or relative, the statement shall set out the reasons why the statement is not so signed, and of the connection of the person who signed the statement with the insane person, and the circumstances under which he signed the statement. (2.) No person shall sign such statement unless he is at least twenty-one years of age, and has within fourteen days before the application personally seen the insane person. NOTE. All letters of inquiry will receive a prompt reply. Severe illness or the occurrence of anything of moment will be immediately communicated. Stamps must be enclosed to prepay replies. CHAPTER 9. An Act to amend Chapter 47, Revised Statutes, 1900, “Of (Passed the 7th day of April, A. D., 1905) SECTION 1. Section 2 repealed and substituted. Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: repealed substituted. 1. Section 2 of Chapter 47 of the Revised Statutes, Section 2 1900, "Of Local Hospitals," as amended by Chapter 29 of speed and the Acts of 1903, is repealed and the following section substituted therefor: "2. The Governor-in-Council is authorized to pay out of the Provincial Treasury in aid of any such hospital to the recognized governing board thereof a sum to be computed according to the following scale, that is to say, (a) At the rate of thirty cents for each day's actual treatment and stay of a patient in such hospital during the fiscal year of the Province next preceding the year for which such aid is given until the amount of such aid reaches one thousand five hundred dollars; (b) After such aid amounts to the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars, at the rate of twenty cents for every additional day's actual treatment and stay of a patient in such hospital during the said fiscal year." CHAPTER 10. An Act to amend Chapter 8, Acts of 1902, entitled "An (Passed the 7th day of April, A. D., 1905.) Section 2 amended. Construction of amendment. SECTION, I. Section 2 amended. SECTION. 2. Construction of amendment. Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. Sub-section (1) of section 2, of Chapter 8, of the Acts. of 1902, entitled, "An Act to amend the Nova Scotia Companies' Act, 1900," is amended by striking out the word "for" in the second last line thereof, and substituting therefor the words "at or before." 2. Said chapter 8, of the Acts of 1902, shall be construed as if this Act had been passed on the day of the passing of said Chapter 8, and all acts done and proceedings taken under and by virtue of the sub-section mentioned in the next preceding section are legalized, confirmed and validated as fully as if said sub-section had originally read as now amended. Chapter 33 amended. CHAPTER 11. An Act to amend Chapter 33, Revised Statutes, 1900, "Of Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. Chapter 33 of the Revised Statutes, 1900, "Of Stipendiary Magistrates," is amended by striking out the word "County" and substituting therefor the word "Municipality wherever the said word county is used in the said chapter, except in the fourth line of the fourteenth section thereof; and by inserting after the word "county" in the said fourth line of said fourteenth section the words "in which is situated the municipality." 2. Section 2 of said Chapter 33 is hereby amended by Section 2 adding thereto the following section: (2) One or more additional stipendiary magistrates may be appointed for cities or incorporated towns who shall receive the prescribed fees, but any city or town council may at any time by resolution, grant to any such additional stipendiary magistrate an annual salary and receive such. fees or any portion thereof as part of the revenue of the town. added to. magistrates. 3. Subject to the provisions of section 65, of Chapter 159, Jurisdiction of of the Revised Statutes, 1900, "The Municipal Courts Act," stipendiary every stipendiary magistrate shall have and exercise throughout the whole of the county in which is situated the city, incorporated town or municipal district for which he is appointed, all the powers, jurisdiction and authority conferred upon stipendiary magistrates by Chapter 160, of the Revised Statutes, 1900, "Of Civil Procedure in Justices' Courts." 4. Nothing in this Act shall affect any pending litiga- Pending litigation either criminal or civil. tion not affected. |
