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Volume | 1922 |
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Law Number | 368 |
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Chap. 368.—An ACT providing for a commission on mental health. [S B 69]
Approved March 23, 1922.
Whereas, there is need for a more general dissemination of infor-
mation and wider public interest regarding mental hygiene, the pre-
valence, causes and prevention of insanity, mental defect and epilepsy
and their effects on the individual, his or her offspring, the commu-
nity and the State; and
Whereas, inadequate special provision is now made in our public
schools for the appropriate teaching and training of mentally de-
ficient, backward and epileptic children; and,
Whereas, insufficient consideration and study is given to the re-
lationship of mental disorders and epilepsy to crime ana moral de-
linquency ; and
Whereas, defective delinquents constitute a troublesome group in
our hospitals, prisons, reformatories and industrial schools, that spe-
cial study and custody, and probably a separate institution; and
Whereas, many mental defectives and epileptics that cannot be
provided for in our State institutions need better supervision and care
than can be given them in their homes; and
Whereas, out-patients mental clinics and hospital social service
have seemed to have proven of advantage elsewhere; and
Whereas, special provision for border-line or doubtful cases, and
the diagnosis and study of mental diseases in their incipiency and
most curable stage should receive more attention, thereby aiding in
earlier recovery; and
Whereas, a psychopathic hospital and institute seems to furnish
the best means of such diagnosis and treatment, and the scientific
study and research into abnormal and subnormal mental conditions
and the clinical teaching of psychiatry ; and
Whereas, many patients furloughed or discharged from the several
State institutions for the insane, feeble-minded and epileptic fre-
quently need advice and assistance of psychiatrists and trained social
workers, in order that such cases may more readily re-adjust them-
selves to their environment, avoid social and economic stress, and
procure suitable employment and home care and treatment, thereby
preventing another mental upset; therefore,
Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That a com-
mission on mental health be constituted and appointed by the gov-
ernor, as follows:
The chairman of the State board of public welfare, who shall be
chairman ; the commissioner of the same board who shall be secretary ;
one member of the State senate; one member of the house of dele-
gates ; the commissioner of State hospitals; the superintendent of the
central State hospital and the superintendent of the Virginia colony
for epileptics and feeble-minded ; the State health commissioner; the
superintendent of public instruction and two citizens from the State
at large, at least one of whom shall be a woman, to inquire into these
several matters and to report to him,. with suggestions, plans and
recommendations, not later than November first, nineteen hundred and
twenty-three; and such report shall be incorporated in the annual
report of the department of public welfare for the bi-ennial ending
September third, ninteeen hundred and twenty-three, and transmitted
by him to the general assembly, with such recommendations as he
may deem proper and advisable, for the general welfare of the State,
and the classes affected.
It is further provided that the members of said commission shall
serve without pay.