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"Five hundred and fifty years ago Western culture produced the first institutions calculated to provide relief to society from the inconvenient presence of madmen. nl Prior to May 8, 1951" 'the state or Utah had made very few changes in their laws pertaining to the admission of patients to the state hospital that would indicate a change in the philosophy of the past five hundred and fifty years. Utah's admission laws read quite similar to the laws pertaining to the trial and incarceration of a known criminal. They contain such words as arrest, parole, sheriff, Warrant, district attorney, judges, jurisdiction and many other similar .words which do not seem to be appropriate hospital. terminology. Utah's laws prior to 1951 were also filled with such terms as "idiocy," "imbecility, "feebleness of mind. |
