Legal Notes

Abstract

In our January number we gave a report of legal proceedings in determining the place of residence under the Mental Deficiency Act of the cases of two mentally defective girls in the Cumnor Rise Home for the Feeble-minded, Cumnor, Berks... when the Petty Sessional Court at Abingdon decided that in both cases the liability for maintenance rested with the Berkshire Local Authority. The facts may be recapitulated briefly as follows:? One patient had been in the Home since 1907, her poor law settlement at the time of admission being in Reading; the other had also been in the Home for some