[259] Repealing 57 Geo. III., c. 106, and 1 Geo. IV., c. 98.
[260] See Twenty-seventh Report of Inspectors of Asylums, May 1, 1878.
[261] Parliamentary Return, ordered to be printed, April 19, 1826.
[262] Parliamentary Papers, Correspondence, etc., between the Home Office and the Irish Government during 1827 on Public Lunatic Asylums.
[263] First Annual Report of the City of Cork Asylum, dated March 1, 1827.
[264] For particulars in regard to the condition of the insane in Ireland in this year, see "Report of the Select Committee appointed to take into consideration the state of the poorer classes in Ireland in relation to Lunatic Asylums, 1830."
[265] "The Report of the Lords' Committee appointed to consider the state of the lunatic poor in Ireland, and to report to the House."
[266] Report of the Lords' Committee.
[267] Orders in Council were in consequence issued for the erection of the new district asylums, under the statutes 1 and 2 Geo. IV. and 7 Geo. IV., c. 14, which will be found on another page.
[268] 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.