Note 51 — Chapter IV · Some General Considerations.

Cf. Dr. Bedford Pierce’s statement, (op. cit., p. 43), “I have met persons otherwise level-headed who cannot be persuaded to enter the grounds of an asylum. Not infrequently all sorts of excuses are made to escape the duty of visiting a relative who is under care, and so real is the danger of neglect that the State has decreed that no order for reception shall be granted without an undertaking that the patient shall be visited at least every six months.”