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Senator Sam Ervin Says
WASHINGTON— Hearings
have been scheduled by the
Constitutional Rights Sub
committee, of which I am
chairman, to review the
operation of the 1964 Act
for the Hospitalization of
the Mentally 111 in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
While the federal gov
ernment’s responsibility in
this area of the law is lim
ited to the District of Co
lumbia, these hearings will
be in the nature of a na
tional accounting of pro
cedures relating to the lib
erty and hospitalization of
the mentally ill. The 1964
act was a model code for
the mental health pro
cedures in this country. I
am pleased that it resulted
from the investigations and
hearings conducted during
my tenure as chairman of
this Senate subcommittee.
Those investigations
pointed up some acute
problems arising out of the
cumbersome laws and pro
cedures surrounding the
treatment of those suffer
ing from mental illness.
While our investigation dis
closed some serious “due
process” of law problems
involving such persons in
many states, its primary
purpose was to modernize
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procedures to protect the i
medical and legal rights of
the mentally ill who reside
in the District of Columbia.
A major source of the
problem was found to lie '
in the prevalent attitude
concerning mental illness.
Most individuals suffering
from this illness have been
faced with archaic laws
based upon the popular
conception that to to
such an illness carried a
social stigma which was
often impossible to erase
in the community. Another
major problem was that it
was often impossible to
gain admission to a public
hospital for treatment on a
voluntary basis. On the
other hand, judicially or
dered hospitalization meant
an automatic loss of the
basic rights of a citizen.
Under that system, the
District of Columbia law
assured the mentally ill but
one right, the right to be
forgotten.
The subcommittee find
ings from those hearings
became the basis of a new
law, Public Law 88-597,
which was enacted on Sep
tember 15, 1964. Its pas
sage represented a step
forward for the civil lib
erties of these often for
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gotten individuals.
Primarily, the 1964 act
was designed to encourage
voluntary hospitalization; to
define and protect the
rights of a patient once he
was in the hospital; and to
ensure, as far as legally
possible, that no stigma
was attached to the fact
that he had been hospital
ized for mental illness. Un
der 'that act the judicial
finding of a need for hos
pitalization was separated
from the finding of legal
incompetence. Thus Con
gress recognized that men
tal illness does not neces
sarily mean that one lacks
the ability to exercise his
rights.
The law also carefully
defined for civil patients
such rights as communica
tion privileges; visitation
rights; the capacity to
seek release under certain
conditions; and more im
portant, the right to medi
cal treatment, and not just
custodial care.
Sufficient time has now
elapsed to see how well the
act is functioning here in
Washington. We shall now
attempt to discover to what
extent the constitutional
rights of the mentally ill,
the prospective mentally ill,
and their families are being
respected in the District of
Columbia and elsewhere. I
trust that these hearings
will give a much needed
accounting upon this im
portant subject.
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H FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA H
ASSETS September 30, 1969 September 30, 1964
H Cash and due from banks $ 12,644,430.42 $ 4,513,452.83
U. S. Treasury securities 6,267,369.65 4,797,541.75
Securities of other U. S. Government agencies and corporations 3,830,000.00 .00
Obligations of States and political subdivisions 12,781,639.28 2,616,229.61 BI
Other securities 275,372.47 .00
Trading account securities 2,401,480.14 .00
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to resell 2,250,000.00 .00
Other loans 63,493,483.60 17,567.789.46
Bank premises and equipment 2,379,787.19 419,945.50
HE Accrued interest receivable and other assets 2,075,786.93 463,611.05
H| TOTAL ASSETS $108,399,349.68 $30,378,570.20
H Demand deposits 40,768,442.33 12,195.888.06
Savings deposits 16,186,295.18 7,351,196.14
HI Other time deposits 35,661,087.49 6,304.562.93
H| TOTAL DEPOSITS 92,616,625.00 25,851.647.13
Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agreement to repurchase 1,445,000.00 .00
Other liabilities for borrowed money 951,610.97 .00
H| Mortgage indebtedness 191,560.72 .00 Bfl|
HI Other liabilities 3.109,238.60 649,135.22 I^B
H TOTAL LIABILITIES 98.313,235.29 26,500,782.35 |H
■ . RESERVES ON LOANS AND SECURITIES H
Reserve for possible loan losses 881,777.56 262,580.90
Equity Capital;
Capital Stock (613,075 shares of $5 par value) 3,065,375.00
|H (185,000 shares of $lO par value) . *.' 1,850,000.00
Surplus 5.075,625.00 1,500,000.00
m. : Undivided Profits 1.063.336.83 265.206.95 MIIBf.
H 7 9,264!336.83 3.615T206 95 ;^Jh|.
TOTAL LIABILITIES & CAPITAL ♦108,399,369.68 $30,378,570.20 I
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