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Power to send discharged pauper not recovered to a workhouse.
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25. Where a pauper lunatic is discharged from an institution for lunatics, and the medical officer of the institution is of opinion that the lunatic has not recovered and is a proper person to be kept in a workhouse as a lunatic, the medical officer shall certify such opinion, and the lunatic may thereupon be received and detained against his will in a workhouse without further order if the medical officer of the workhouse certifies in writing that the accommodation in the workhouse is sufficient for the lunatic’s proper care and treatment, separate from the inmates of the workhouse not lunatics, or that the lunatic’s condition is such that it is not necessary for the convenience of the lunatic, or of the other inmates, that he should be kept separate.
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