THE LAW OF LUNACY.
TO THE EDITOR. ■ Sir, —Kindly allow me a line re above» • named subject. My learned friend Dr. Laishley, I would ■ respectfully submit, "entirely misunderstands the law re above subject. The whole : question has been lately decided by a > most learned judge in ' the famous case of Weldon v. Winslow. It is laid down I.bat a lunatic is he who is a danger to himself or the community at large, by force of violence, and not he who has a delusion or a temporary ailment allowing of private and ' medical treatment. g? 111 ■ personal liberty were not so guarded, family craft and malice would inflict the most-cruel form of imprisonment with maniacs, - converting the sanest into insanity and death. Suffering humanity cries ■ out against such horrible cruelty, and demands that drunkards shall be privately treated with kindness and restraint without infliction of v degradation and destruction, and so lessen ana not increase the calamity of madness.—l am, et2., Hugh Shortland, solicitor. oi Auckland City Council Chambers.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8568, 16 May 1891, Page 3
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