Remarks on the present state of the lunatic asylums in Ireland, and on the number and condition of the insane paupers in the kingdom / by Andrew Halliday.

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[1808]
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Credit: Remarks on the present state of the lunatic asylums in Ireland, and on the number and condition of the insane paupers in the kingdom / by Andrew Halliday. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Lunatics in Ireland, I have been encouraged to publish a few of the facts with which I have been made acquainted, with a view of inducing some honourable Member of the House of Com- mons, connected with the Country, to step for- ward in their behalf, so as to accomplish what Mr. Charles W. Williams Wynn has already done in behalf of the criminal and pauper Lunatics in England and Wales. Sir John Newport informs me, in a letter dated the 25th. January, 1808, that he pro- posed, about four years ago, to establish, under the authority of Parliament, four provincial Asylums in Ireland, for the reception and cure of pauper Lunatics; but that his intentions were defeated at that time, as the bill which he introduced for that purpose was rejected in the House of Commons. — I trust, however, when it is generally known that in the whole kingdom of Ireland, containing a popu- lation of nearly five millions and a half, and where, from existing circumstances, it is proved that Insanity is a disease of as frequent occurrence among the lower classes of the people as in any other country in Europe, there is not even one Asylum for the reception and cure of insane paupers, that such a bill would not be rejected in the House of Commons, if again brought forward.