Irish Lunatic Asylums for the Poor Act 1817
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Irish Lunatic Asylums for the Poor Act 1817
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The Irish Lunatic Asylums for the Poor Act 1817 was an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom. It made Ireland the first nation in the world to require a national system of publicly funded asylums, before this expanded to the rest of the United Kingdom. It also constituted the first time that a national bureaucratic system had been established by colonial social welfare policy It led to the creation of a provincial asylum in each province.
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United Kingdom legislation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Lunatic_Asylums_for_the_Poor_Act_1817
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2023-11-15T02:12:49Z
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