CHAP. IX.--APPOINTMENT OF DISTRICT MEDICAL OFFICERS.
District physicians appointed in Italy and Germany, 169.--Recognition of principle of appointing district officers in England, in the instance of sanitary medical officers, 169.--District medical officers need to be independent, 170.--Extent of districts, 170.--Such officers to register and visit reported cases of lunacy, 170.--Their reports of cases valuable, 171.--Idiots also should be registered, 171.--District officer might sign order for admission to an asylum, 171.--Better qualified for the duty than magistrates, 171, 175.--Illustrations from evidence of Lord Shaftesbury and Mr. Gaskell, 172.--Suggestions respecting signature of orders, 172.--Objections to clergymen signing orders, 173.--Magistrate's order not required for private patients, 174.--Remarks on proposition of Commissioners to leave selection of cases in workhouses for asylum treatment to the Union medical officer, 175.--District officer best qualified for this duty, 175.--Additional protection afforded to lunatics by the appointment of district medical officers, 175.--District officer to inspect lunatics in workhouses, 176.--Regulations for his guidance, 176.--Lunatics in workhouses should be under certificate, 176.--Medical officer best judge of the wants of cases, 177.--No removal of lunatics from workhouses without supervision, 177.--Committee of visiting magistrates for workhouses, 178.--Principles of action of the Lunacy Commission, 178.--Commissioners' recommendation of visiting committees, 179.--Workhouses licensed to receive lunatics, 179.--Lunatics in workhouses reported by district officer, 180.--Visitation of pauper lunatics by parish authorities, 180.--No such visitation of county lunatics, 180.--Desirability that county lunatics should have a visitor, 181.--Determination of question of lunatics chargeable best left to district officer, 181.--Duties of district officer with outdoor pauper lunatics, 182.--Need of inspection of singly-placed lunatics, 182.--Cost of such inspection, 183.--District officer to visit single cases in lodgings, &c., 183.--To visit private asylums as the physician, joined in inspection with the magistrates, 183.--Position and remuneration of district officers, 184.--Such officers to be met with, 184.--District officers engaged in medico-legal inquiries, 185.--Such a class of officers much needed, 185.--Neglect of organization in State medical matters, 186.--A proper organization not necessarily costly, 186.