Note 126 — Chapter III · EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ASYLUMS—FOUNDATION OF THE YORK RETREAT.
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51 Geo. III., c. 74; also in 1815, May 2 (55 Geo. III., c. 46), independently of the Report of the Select Committee. Overseers were to make returns of all lunatics and idiots within their parishes. These Acts do not touch "Private mad-houses"—only paupers.