MATTER OF KINGS COUNTY HOSP.


20 Misc.2d 866 (1959)

In the Matter of the Applications for Certification to State Mental Institutions of Patients Identified for the Record as Cases 1 to 19, Inclusive, and 51 to 62, Inclusive, at Hearings Conducted on October 28, 1959 at Kings County Hospital.

Supreme Court, Special Term, Kings County.

October 30, 1959.


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BENJAMIN BRENNER, J.

The patients herein identified for the record as cases 1 to 19, inclusive, and 54 are aged individuals who have been described by the examining doctors at Kings County Hospital as violent or aggressive and definitely psychotic. They need more than custodial care and must, therefore, be treated as patients truly mentally ill. A few of them are completely homeless and without friends or relatives. These aged persons are all certified...

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