pursuant to sections 46.18, 46.19 and 46.20; but the trustees shall, in addition to the superintendent, appoint a visiting physician of said asylum; and they shall receive the same compensation for their services as is allowed members of the county board. [Stats. 1917 s. 603, 604, 604a, 604h, 604x-1, 604x-2; 1919 c. 347 s. 34] Annotated *

51.26 Admission of patients; state aid; private patients. (1) Upon completion of the building for such asylum patients may be admitted thereto as provided in sections 51.05, 51.08 and 51.10, and as hereinafter provided, subject to all statutes relating to the supervision of the insane by the state board of control.

(2) The trustees may transfer to and receive into said asylum all inmates of the state institutions for the insane who are residents of said county and held as chronic or incurable, all insane inmates of the poorhouse thereof, all inebriate persons and persons adjudged to be insane according to law, resident in said county and who may be lawfully committed to said asylum.

(3) The trustees may receive into said asylum, any inebriate or insane person resident in any other county in the state, not admitted to either of the state hospitals, and such person shall be subject to the provisions of law governing inebriates and insane persons resident in the county in which such asylum is located; but the cost of maintaining such inebriate or insane person shall be adjusted on the basis prescribed in section 51.08.

(4) The trustees may receive into said asylum, for care and treatment at private charge, any inebriate person and any person adjudged to be insane according to the laws of this state, but without extra expense to the state or the county in which the asylum is located. [Stats. 1917 s. 604b, 604c, 604d; 1919 c. 347 s. 35] Annotated * †

51.27 Tubercular patients; segregation and separate maintenance; state aid. (1) Whenever any county has erected a separate hospital or pavilion for chronic tubercular insane, the state board of control may transfer thereto such chronic insane persons as it may be satisfied are afflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis to such a degree as to render them carriers or spreaders of that disease.

(2) In lieu of the rates prescribed by section 51.08, the state shall be chargeable at the rate of six dollars per week for each such patient resident in the county which maintains said hospital, and ten dollars per week for each other patient; and of the latter rate five dollars for each such patient shall be chargeable over to the county, if any, of which such patient is a resident. All such charges shall be adjusted as provided in section 46.10. [Stats. 1917 s. 604x-3, 604x-4, 604x-5; 1919 c. 347 s. 37; 1921 c. 334; 1923 c. 439]

51.28 Burial of deceased inmates. (1) Whenever a patient in any county asylum for the insane, whose maintenance is chargeable to the state or to any other county, shall die, the superintendent shall immediately notify one or more of the relatives or friends of the deceased of the fact, if such notification be possible by ordinary means; and if such relatives or friends cannot be so notified or will not make provision for the burial of the deceased (and if the body be not claimed as provided in section 155.02) the superintendent shall provide for the decent and proper burial of his remains.

(2) The reasonable and proper expenses of such notification and burial services not exceeding in the aggregate fifty dollars, shall be chargeable to the state and chargeable over to the county, if any, of which such patient was a resident at the time of his death, and adjusted as provided in section 46.10. [Stats. 1917 s. 604x; 1919 c. 347 s. 38; 1921 c. 84, 146; 1923 c. 32] Annotated +

51.30 Private liability to state for relief of poor and insane. Whenever poor relief is granted to any person under chapter 49, or whenever a person is committed to any institution specified in chapters 50 to 51, and the expense of such relief or of such maintenance in such institution is chargeable to the state or any subdivision thereof, or both, the relatives of such person described in section 49.11 shall be liable to the state or any such subdivision in the manner and to the extent provided in sections 49.11 and 49.12. The district attorney of any county in which any such relative resides shall at the request of the county judge or the governing body of any town, city, village or county take all necessary proceedings to enforce the provisions of this section. [1927 c. 537 s. 2]

52.01 Northern Wisconsin Colony and Training School and Southern Wisconsin Colony and Training School. (1) The purposes and objects of the "Northern Wisconsin Colony and Training School," located near Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, and the "Southern Wisconsin Colony and Training School," located near Union Grove, Wisconsin (formerly respectively known as the Wisconsin Home for the Feeble-Minded and the Southern Wisconsin Home for the Feeble-Minded), are to care for, train and have the custody of mentally deficient and epileptic persons.

(2) Each of said institutions shall maintain the following departments, to wit: A school department for the educable grades or classes; a custodial department for the helpless and lower types; such other departments or colonies as the welfare of the inmates may require. The board of control shall establish therein such vocational training as is adapted to the several departments. [1927 c. 178]

52.015 [Repealed by 1927 c. 178 s. 1]

52.02 Feeble-minded, epileptic; commitments, examinations. (1) Except as otherwise provided, sections 51.01 to 51.11, inclusive, 51.14, 51.16, 51.17 and 51.19 of the statutes shall govern the examination, commitment and custody of mentally deficient and epileptic persons; but commitments of such persons shall be to one of the institutions named in section 52.01. In cases of alleged mental deficiency, the examination may be made by a clinical psychologist and a licensed physician skilled in mental diagnosis; but no person shall be recognized as a clinical psychologist unless he has received the doctorate degree in psychology, with work in neurology and psychiatry, and has had not less than two years of successful experience in clinical psychological work.

(2) The appointment of the physicians to examine any person alleged to be mentally deficient shall be in writing and substantially in the following form: The county judge of.... county, Wisconsin, to .... Ph. D.,

M. D., and

who is alleged

You are hereby appointed to make personal examination of mentally deficient, or an epileptic, and by such examination and by inquiry to satisfy yourselves fully as to the mental condition of the said .... ...., and report the result of such examination and inquiry to me at the earliest practicable time. The report of the examining physicians shall consist of answers to the following questions and suggestions, so far as the facts can be reasonably obtained:

(a) Name of person alleged to be mentally deficient or epileptic, report of whose examination follows:

(d) Sex. Race.

Religion.

Nativity.

(e) How many living brothers and sisters, including half-brothers and half-sisters?

(f) How many deceased brothers and sisters, including half-brothers and half-sisters? (g) Name and address of father.

(h) Name and address of mother.

(i) Maiden name of mother.

(j) Birthplace of father.

(k) Occupation of father.

Of mother.

Of mother.

(1) If father and mother are not living together, state reason.

(m) If either, or both, father and mother are deceased, state age at time of death and cause of death.

(n) State father's age and mother's age when this child was born.

(0) State relationship if parents were blood-relatives.

(p) What was health of mother during this pregnancy?

(q) Specify any instances of feeble-mindedness, insanity or delinquency in family, including father, mother, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins and grandparents, living or dead.

(r) Specify any instances of epilepsy, tuberculosis, goitre, heart disease or syphilis in family, including father, mother, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins and grandparents, living or dead.

(s) If female, state age menstruation began. Also date of last menstruation. (t) Was she ever pregnant?

Is she now pregnant?

(u) State general health of this person.

(v) State particulars if this person has any contagious disease or has been recently exposed to any such disease.

(w) Indicate when this person had any, and which, of the following diseases, to wit: Meningitis, whooping cough, tuberculosis, encephalitis, measles, infantile paralysis, scarlet fever, chorea and syphilis.

(x) Describe any physical deformities or abnormalities this person exhibits.

(y) Describe any defect in sight, speech or hearing.

(z) When was mental abnormality first noticed?

(za) State in what manner such mental abnormality has become and is manifest, that is, whether by way of mental disorder (insanity) or mental deficiency (feeble-mindedness). (zb) Did this mental abnormality first become apparent before or after the age of puberty?

(ze) In your opinion is this mental abnormality a congenital or an acquired condition? If acquired, to what ascribed?

(zd) At what age did this person begin attending school? How long in attendance? How many grades completed?

(ze) Did, or does, this person, taking physical handicaps into consideration, show average progress in school?

(zf) If this person has ever earned wages, state amount of same; also kind and regularity of employment.

(zg) If this person has history of delinquency, state particulars as to offenses committed, number of times arrested and number of convictions with sentences given.

(zh) If mental tests have been applied, state method used, by whom given and with what result.

(zi) In your opinion is this person capable of competing on equal terms with normal persons, or of managing himself, or his affairs, or herself, or her affairs, with ordinary prudence?

(zj) State any other facts having a bearing on the mental condition of this person. (zk) If this person has ever had spasms, convulsions, fits, spells, attacks, "falling sickness," or epileptic seizures, describe the manifestations.

(z) State age at which such manifestations first appeared.

(zm) State date of last seizure.

(zn) If this person has sustained injuries or has injured others preceding, during or following a seizure, state facts briefly.

(zo) Is this person mentally deficient? Is this person epileptic?

(zp) Have you given notice to the patient that application has been made for an examination into his or her mental condition and of the opportunity of a hearing? If not, state fully your reasons for withholding such notice.

(zq) Does the patient desire a hearing in person?

(zr) Do you recommend that this person be committed to an institution for the care, custody and training of mentally deficient and epileptic persons?

(3) Whenever it shall reasonably appear to the supervisor of any town, city, village or ward in which any mentally deficient or epileptic person resides that the welfare of said person, or of society, requires the commitment of such person as mentally deficient or epileptic, such supervisor shall take measures to have such person brought before the county judge for examination according to law.

(4) All persons under commitment to any state or county institution under the jurisdiction of the state board of control, who shall upon determination of said board of control acting as a commission in lunacy as provided in section 51.11, be found to be mentally deficient or epileptic, may by order of said board be committed and transferred to either aforesaid institution for mentally deficient and epileptic persons. [1927 c. 178] Annotated +

52.03 Discharge of inmates, transfers. (1) The board of control shall make all necessary regulations to govern the temporary or final discharge of all inmates in said institutions.

(2) Whenever any person shall be committed to either of said institutions, and such institution shall be filled to its capacity, the board of control may transfer such person to the other institution, or, if both institutions are filled, to a county asylum for the chronic

insane.

(3) The superintendent of each institution, with the approval of the board of control, shall have power to discharge inmates, but no epileptic inmate shall at any time thereafter be sent or returned to any county home.

(4) In case any person shall be sent to either of said institutions through mistake in the diagnosis of his mental condition or disease or from any other cause, to be determined by the board of control acting as a commission in lunacy, such person if insane shall be transferred to a state hospital for the insane, or if a resident of Milwaukee county, to the Milwaukee hospital for the insane; and if found neither insane or mentally deficient such person shall be returned to the county from which committed. In all such cases of transfer or return the expenses of such shall be borne by the county of commitment. All such charges shall be adjusted as provided in section 46.10.

(5) Should an inmate of either of said institutions become insane he shall be sent to the state hospital for the insane from the district of which he was a resident just prior to his admission to the institution, in the manner prescribed by law. [1927 c. 178]

52.04 Post-mortem examinations. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of each home, whenever any properly committed inmate of said home shall die, to cause an examination to be made in said home, by the physician in charge, upon the brain of such inmate if in the judgment of said superintendent such post-mortem examination may prove of benefit to scientific research and investigation. [Stats. 1917 s. 573q; 1919 c. 85 8. 7]

53.01 State prison. (1) The state prison shall be the general penitentiary and prison for the punishment and reformation of all offenders committed and sentenced according to law by any court of the state of Wisconsin or any court of the United States held in the districts of Wisconsin to imprisonment therein.

(2) For the purpose of all judicial proceedings the prison and precincts thereof shall be deemed to be within and a part of the county of Dodge, and the courts of said county shall have jurisdiction of all crimes and offenses committed within the same.

(3) All process served within the precincts of the prison, either upon convicts or upon persons or officers employed therein, except the warden and deputy warden, shall be served and returned by the warden or deputy warden; and all officers and employes of the prison are exempt from military duty, and from serving on juries in any court. [Stats. 1917 s. 4883, 4884, 4885; 1919 c. 348 s. 3; 1919 c. 443 s. 1] Annotated *

53.02 Warden; duties, bond, oath and report. (1) The warden shall, under the direction of the state board of control, have the charge and custody of the prison, with all lands, buildings, furniture, tools, implements, stock and provisions and every other species of property pertaining thereto or within the precincts thereof, and superintend the police of the prison and discipline of the convicts. He shall enforce the regulations of the board for the government of the officers and convicts of the prison; shall reside in the warden's residence on the prison property; and neither he nor any other officer or employe of the prison shall, directly or indirectly, have any interest or concern pecuniarily in any contract, either verbal or written, which may be entered into for any purposes whatever connected with the business of the prison.

(2) The warden shall take and file an official oath and execute and file an official bond in the sum of twenty thousand dollars with sureties approved by the board; and whenever the board deems further security necessary it may require the warden to execute and file an additional bond or bonds and fix the amount thereof. [Stats. 1917 s. 4895 to 4899; 1919 c. 348 s. 4]

53.03 Deputy warden. The deputy warden shall perform the duties of the warden in the absence of that officer, reside within the prison grounds, and, under the direction of the warden, assist in administering the government and discipline of the prison; and he shall perform all the duties, have all the powers and be subject to all the obligations and liabilities of the warden in case of the disability of that officer or vacancy in that office. [Stats. 1917 s. 4901; 1919 c. 348 s. 5]

53.04 Delivery of convict to prison. (1) The sheriff of each county shall convey to the state prison every person convicted in his county and sentenced to be confined in said prison as soon as may be after such conviction and sentence; and after delivering such convict to the warden, together with a copy of the certificate of conviction of the court ordering such imprisonment, the warden shall deliver to such sheriff a receipt, acknowledging receipt of the prisoner, naming him, which receipt the said sheriff shall file in the office of the clerk of the court where such conviction and sentence were had. Such sheriff shall be entitled to receive from said county the amount actually and necessarily expended by him in transporting such prisoner. including the amount paid for boarding and lodging and such guards as may have been necessarily employed, and such further reasonable sum as shall be a fair compensation for the time necessarily spent in transporting