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Birth Control Legislation, Jack H. Hudson Jan 1960

Birth Control Legislation, Jack H. Hudson

Cleveland State Law Review

In summary, it would seem that sociologists have given the birth control problem a new dimension. What was once a subject fit only for the Victorian drawing rooms of intellectuals is now being given a public hearing, with all of its political, moral,and economic aspects being aired. It would be interesting to note, however, how many of the people who are being apprised of the problems of expanding birth rates and decreasing death rates are aware of the archaic legislation that governs the use of birth control devices in our own country. For example, do advocates of a policy of …


Hospitalization Of The Voluntary Mental Patient, Hugh A. Ross Jan 1955

Hospitalization Of The Voluntary Mental Patient, Hugh A. Ross

Michigan Law Review

In 1949, the last year for which accurate statistics are available, 390,567 persons were admitted to mental hospitals in the United States. Total annual cost of mental illness, including loss of earnings, has been estimated to be over a billion dollars a year. Although the problems involved in admission of the mentally ill patient to a hospital are usually thought of in terms of formal involuntary commitment proceedings, there is an increasing awareness of the desirability of provision for voluntary procedures which would encourage prompt and effective medical care. Voluntary admission is not a form of commitment, although it may …


Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Dec 1904

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The Law School; The New Schools of Healing; When the Exercise of Judicial Discretion is not Due Process of Law; Mandamus to Compel the Installation of a Telephone in a Bawdy House Denied; The Division in the Republican Party in Wisconsin; A Novel Extension of Federal Jurisdiction; The Session Laws of Porto Rico