Chap. 47.—An ACT to create, establish and maintain an institution for the study,
treatment, prevention and research of mental disorders and the training of
students, nurses and physicians, under the name of the Virginia Institute of
Psychiatry. [S 53]

Approved February 22, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. Section 1. There is created and when funds are available there
shall be established and maintained an institution for the study, research,
prevention and treatment of mental disorders, to be designated the Vir-
ginia Institute of Psychiatry. The Institute shall be operated by the
Department of Mental Hygiene and Hospitals but shall be under the con-
trol, management and direction of the State Hospital Board, and shall be
located at a place adjacent to one of the State Medical Colleges. It shall
be equipped with facilities for complex, high grade research, and shall
have accommodations for at least one hundred bed patients, both white
and Negro; shall maintain a small out-patient clinic, chiefly for individ-
ual and family guidance; shall have facilities for the teaching of under-
graduates and specialists in psychiatry, the training of personnel in the
State Hospital System, and the sound psychiatric education of men and
women in medical practice, who are not specializing in psychiatry.

Section 2. Patient material may be derived for the program of study.
research and treatment from selected patients who have been committed
to one of the Virginia State Hospitals and be transferred to this Institute
by order of the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene and Hospitals or by the
State Hospital Board or as otherwise designated by the State Hospital
Board.

Section 3. The Institute shall cooperate with the State Board otf
Education by providing an application of proper psychological procedures
and aiding the schools in the treatment and education of emotionally un-
stable, exceptional, and retarded children and giving appropriate instruc-
tion to teachers and parents in proper child guidance procedures; and
shall also cooperate in such manner as may be found practicable with the
Department of Public Welfare and other State hospitals, medical schools
and institutions.

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