Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Summaries of Laws Relating to the Commitment and Care of the Insane in the United States
In order to present the summaries in a convenient form for com parisons between states in regard to the most important provisions of the laws, it was necessary to adopt a uniform scheme. There fore the extracts of the laws of the different states are given under Specified headings regardless of the fact that the codes and statutes follow a different order of presentation.
The matter contained in the summaries has been gathered under the following general heads.
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