Orders of judge, what to specify. Proviso, notice of transfer. When court may order limited commitment. servation. be benefited by treatment at the psychopathic hospital, he shall remain at said asylum. In all orders made by the judge of probate for the admission of an insane person to the psychopathic hospital at the University of Michigan, it shall be specified that in case such patient shall not recover after a satisfactory period of observation and treatment, or whenever, in the opinion of the director of the psychopathic hospital at the University of Michigan, further residence in said hospital is inadvisable, such patient shall be transferred to the asylum in the district of which said patient was a legal resident or to such other asylum as the judge of probate may designate in such order of committal: Provided, That whenever an insane person is to be so transferred, due notice of such transfer shall be given to the judge of probate and the person making application for such admission and to the superintendent of the asylum to which such patient is to be transferred; Second, When, in accordance with section sixteen, act two hundred seventeen, public acts of nineteen hundred three, in the hearing as to the insanity of a person, it may seem advisable to the court, that on account of doubt as to the sanity or insanity of a person, or if in the opinion of the court, a permanent order of insanity is inadvisable, or if in the opinion of the court and examining physicians, the case presents complicating diseases which may be treated by the clinical physicians in the general hospitals of the University, and by such treatment their mental or nervous disability be cured or benefited, the court may continue said hearing in said court not to exceed thirty-five days, and direct that such person shall be sent to the psychopathic hospital at the University of Michigan, as a public or private patient, as a person afflicted with some nervous or mental disease and that said person be there confined, observed and treated for a Report of ob- period not longer than thirty-five days. Before the expiration of this period the director of the psychopathic hospital shall return to the judge of probate the results of his observation and treatment of said patient, and an opinion stating whether said patient, is insane or sane. If observation has shown that the patient is insane, then the court shall notify said patient, the relatives and the person making the application for said admission to an asylum, and may pass judg ment of insanity and order that said person be confined as an insane patient in the psychopathic hospital at the University of Michigan, or in the State asylum for the insane in the district of which said patient is a legal resident, or in such other asylum for the insane in the State of Michigan as may seem advisable; and it shall thereupon be further ordered that said patient be transferred to the State asylum for the insane of the district of which said patient was a legal resident, or to such asylum as said judge of probate may designate, when in the opinion of the director of the psychopathic hospital further residence in said hospital In case person insane. transfer to from hos tients, ad would not result in recovery or would be inadvisable: Provided, Proviso, That whenever an insane patient is to be transferred to an asylum. asylum in accordance with such provision, due notice of the intention of such transfer shall be given to the judge of probate, the person making application for the admission of said patient into an asylum, and the superintendent of the State asylum for the insane, to which said patient is to be transferred. If the results of the observation of said per- Discharge son show that, in the opinion of the director of the psycho- pital. pathic hospital, said person is not insane, then the order for confinement, observation and treatment shall be vacated and the patient discharged from the psychopathic hospital; Third, Persons who are residents of the State of Michigan, Private pawho are afflicted mentally, or with serious nervous disorder, mission of. but who are not insane, nor been legally adjudged insane, may be admitted to the psychopathic hospital at the University of Michigan as voluntary patients, either at the discretion of the director of said hospital, or in accordance with the statutes providing for the admission of voluntary patients to the Michigan State asylums for the insane. Such voluntary patients, when so received, shall be subject to the general rules and regulations of the psychopathic hospital. All Support of. voluntary patients shall be supported without expense to the State, and the amount agreed upon for the maintenance of such voluntary patients in the psychopathic hospital shall be secured by a properly executed bond to be approved by the medical director, and there shall be made such advance payments as may be required by the action of the board of trustees of the psychopathic hospital at the University of Michigan, and bills for their maintenance shall be collected monthly. Voluntary patients so received may be discharged Discharge, etc. at any time by the medical director, and in case any voluntary patient in the psychopathic hospital at the University of Michigan is believed to be insane, then proceedings shall be carried out as provided for such contingency by act two hundred seventeen, section twenty-nine, public acts of nineteen hundred three; at hospital. Fourth, In case the superintendent of any one of the asy. Inmate at asylum may lums for the insane in the State of Michigan shall be of the be treated opinion that the condition of mind of any person who is confined in such asylum may be benefited by residence and treatment at the psychopathic hospital at the University of Michigan, he may cause said patient to be conveyed to said hospital, and, in case said patient, while there confined, shall be restored to sanity, such patient shall be discharged; but, in In case pacase such patient shall be found incurable, such patient may be returned to the asylum from which said patient was re- Incurables. ceived, or may be discharged or paroled from the psychopathic hospital by its director, with the consent of the superintendent of the asylum from which such patient was received. Whenever, in accordance with the above provisions, Relative to a patient shall be transferred from any asylum to the psycho- asylum. tient cured. transfer from Medical di pathic hospital, the superintendent of such asylum shall notify the guardian, if any, of such patient and the judge of probate of the county of which such patient was a resident, and when said patient is discharged, paroled or returned to the asylum from which said patient was received, the director of the psychopathic hospital shall inform said guardian, if any, and the judge of probate, before taking such action. SEC. 18. All patients transferred to the psychopathic hosrector respon- pital in accordance with the foregoing provisions shall pass from under all care of the asylum from which they were received, except in matters provided for in foregoing provisions as to their discharge or parole, and the order committing such patients to the said asylum from which patients shall be received, shall be full authority for their transfer and confinement in the psychopathic hospital at the University of Michigan, and the director of the psychopathic hospital shall be responsible for their custody, care and treatment. sible for care, etc. Expense for transfers. Compensation. Expenses, how audited and paid. SEC. 19. All expenses for transfers between the asylums and the psychopathic hospital at the University of Michigan, shall be borne by the State in the case of public patients, and by those responsible for their support in the case of private patients. SEC. 20. No compensation shall be allowed to any physi cian, surgeon, or other officer of the University of Michigan, who shall care for or treat any patient of the psychopathic hospital, other than their regular salaries, but all necessary expenses for care of such patient, while in the wards or rooms of the general hospitals of the University of Michigan. shall be paid to the general hospitals by the psychopathic hospital. Such charges shall be audited by the Auditor General and shall be paid to the psychopathic hospital out of the general fund and in all cases where the State may reimfrom county. burse itself for the costs of maintenance of patients at the May collect Patients, discharge of. Act governing. Proviso, readmission. Transfer to asylum. psychopathic hospital, as hereinafter provided, the State shall collect from the county as a charge additional to the maintenance cost of said patient such amounts as have been expended for the care of patient while in the general hospital. Patients while in the wards or rooms of the general hospitals of the University of Michigan shall have the same status as if they were confined in the psychopathic hospital. SEC. 21. The medical director of the psychopathic hospital may discharge any patient in the following ways: First. In accordance with the provisions of section thirtytwo, act two hundred seventeen, public acts of nineteen hundred three: Provided. That any person so discharged may not be readmitted to the psychopathic hospital at the University of Michigan, except on a new order of admission; Second, Any insane patient of the psychopathic hospital may be transferred to the State asylum for the insane in the district of which said patient was a legal resident, or to such asylum as the judge of probate may designate in his order of admission, whenever, after a satisfactory period of notice. observation and treatment, it is found that said patient is incurable, or that further confinement in the psychopathic hospital at the University of Michigan is inadvisable: Pro- Proviso, vided, That whenever an insane person is to be so transferred, due notice of such transfer shall be given to the judge of probate, and to the person making the application for the admission of said patient to an asylum, and to the superintendent of the asylum to which patient is to be transferred. SEC. 22. The State shall pay to the psychopathic hospital Expenses of public paall expenses for keeping and maintaining public patients tient, how therein, including their clothing and all other expenses of paid. said hospital for said public patients, and during the first year of the patient's confinement as a public patient, the State shall collect from the county treasurer of the county Collect from in which said patient was a legal resident, such daily rate as may be annually fixed at the joint meeting of the boards. of trustees of the State asylums for the insane and the Board of State Auditors, as the daily rate for the maintenance of public patients in the asylum located in the district of which such patient was a legal resident, and in addition thereto, the cost of clothing, transportation and elopement expenses and moneys furnished in accordance with section thirty-three, act two hundred seventeen, public acts of nineteen hundred three. county. expenses, how paid. SEC. 23. The business officer of the psychopathic hospital Monthly shall monthly make an itemized statement, under oath, which statement of shall be certified to by the director of the psychopathic hos- audited and pital, of all expenses chargeable to the accounts of patients, . and shall file the same with the treasurer of the psychopathic hospital. Upon filing of such account and affidavit with the treasurer, it shall be the duty of said treasurer to forward such account to the Auditor General, who shall examine and audit such account, and shall draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer for the amount so audited by him and shall pay the same out of any moneys appropriated for such purpose, if there be any, and, if not, then out of the general fund. SEC. 24. Every public patient, if he has an estate sufficient Liability for for that purpose, and, if not, such relatives as are legally tient. liable for the support of such patient, shall be liable to the State for all expenses paid by it in the behalf of such patient. public pa SEC. 25. All repairs and such current expenses as are Current exnot actually related to the care and treatment of patients, penses. shall be paid for out of any fund which may be to the credit of the hospital, over and above expenses for the maintenance for the patients therein. SEC. 26. Any or all provisions of the following sections Act applicable. of act two hundred seventeen, public acts of nineteen hundred three, which are not in conflict with the foregoing provisions of this present act, or which provide for contingencies not provided for in this present act, shall apply to any or all patients confined in the psychopathic hospital, at the University of Michigan. Such sections are sections eighteen, Pathological laboratory to be maintained. Annual appropriation. Tax clause. Acts repealed. nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-seven, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-seven, thirty-nine, forty, forty-one,' forty-two, fortythree. SEC. 27. There shall be maintained as a part of the psychopathic hospital at the University of Michigan a clinical pathological laboratory, which shall be a central laboratory for the Michigan State asylums for the insane and a laboratory in which research into the phenomena and pathology of mental diseases shall be carried on. SEC. 28. There shall be annually appropriated out of any money in the State treasury, not otherwise appropriated, a sum of ten thousand dollars, to meet the payment of the salaries of the director of the psychopathic hospital, his assistant physicians, the business officer, clerk, laboratory assistants and the current expenses of the clinical pathological laboratory of the psychopathic hospital and the surplus, if any, may be expended for repairs and betterments of the psychopathic hospital. SEC. 29. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred seven and each year thereafter, the sum of ten thousand dollars which, when collected, shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse the same for the money hereby appropriated. SEC. 30. Act number one hundred sixty-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred one, and act number one hundred forty of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, are hereby repealed; saving and reserving all acts done and the rights accrued under said acts, which acts done and rights accrued shall continue and be in force under these acts and other laws of the State applicable thereto. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section amended. [No. 279.] AN ACT to amend section nine of act number one hundred thirty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eightyfive, entitled "An act to regulate the practice of pharmacy in the state of Michigan," as amended. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section nine of act one hundred thirty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-five, entitled "An act to regulate the practice of pharmacy in the State of Michigan," is hereby amended to read as follows: |