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instan I have occasionally, in cases of undoubted in- 
fanity, sdiccarloatt that some of the statements made by the 
insanity, 
has been especially the case with regard to the domestic relations 
of the patient, a matter in which you as medical men are aware 
truth is often stranger than fiction. The domestic relations of the 
patient should, as a matter of course, be more within the cognizance 
of the ordinary medical attendant than of a stranger. 
One of the chief reasons given for relegating the signature of 
medical certificates to officials is to prevent the sequestration of 
persons who are sane, for improper purposes. A short account of 
the law as it now stands in this Colony may serve to show how 
difficult—nay, almost impossible—it would be to secure such 
collusion as would effect this. 
Patients can be admitted into gees for the insane under 
two - Aeiart The first — the ct) is by an ‘order’ 
Sation of the patient and after the signature of certificates by two 
medical sige and the production of such other evidence 
as they may deem needful. Under this process four persons, at 
least, must Saher! be in a conspiracy, or there must be gross te 
on the part of some of them to allow of wrong-doing b 
The second (section 8 of the Act) is by —— on the wee of 
a relative, friend, or —- Such “ reques ust be accom- 
like the “order” above mentioned, a mandatory document. The 
superintendent of an hos ital or licensed house to which it is 
