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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    CHAP. IV. * Remarks on the present state of Lunatic Asylums, and on the Number and Condition of Pauper Lunatics, in the Province of Munster. As the Province of Munster forms the largest division of the Kingdom, the area being computed at 5,329,146 British acres, and the population at nearly two millions, it is natural to suppose that the number of insane paupers must be very great; and accordingly I find, upon comparing the information which I have obtained from various quarters, that they amount to considerably more than four hundred. There are no Lunatic Asylums in this Province, but a proportion of the Lunatics and Idiots of the respective counties are confined in the Houses of Industry, at Cork, Limerick, and Water- ford. These institutions are supported by Grand Jury Presentments, and are not only the Asylum of the Pauper Lunatics, but the prison of the vilest outcasts of the country; and I conceive that the misery, the extreme of wretchedness, which is suffered to exist in institutions of so mixed a nature, where the B
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