Note 268 — Chapter X · IRELAND.

This Act was preceded by the Select Committee of Lunatic Asylums (Ireland), moved by Colonel Dunne. Dr. Nugent, the Inspector of Asylums, gave in his evidence a minute description of the system under which asylums have been erected in Ireland, and stated that the expenditure on the seven asylums built since 1847 amounted £313,973. In the same year a Commission was appointed to inquire into the erection of district lunatic asylums, which reported in 1856.