An enquiry into the causes producing the extraordinary addition to the number of insane : together with extended observations on the cure of insanity ; with hints as to the better management of public asylums for insane persons, directed with a view to their more immediate relief; as well as the diminution of the charges appropriated to their support. To which are annexed, some necessary observations in reply to Doctor Andrew Halliday's "Remarks on the present state of the lunatic asylums in Ireland" / by William Saunders Hallaran.

  • Hallaran, William Saunders.
Date:
1810
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Credit: An enquiry into the causes producing the extraordinary addition to the number of insane : together with extended observations on the cure of insanity ; with hints as to the better management of public asylums for insane persons, directed with a view to their more immediate relief; as well as the diminution of the charges appropriated to their support. To which are annexed, some necessary observations in reply to Doctor Andrew Halliday's "Remarks on the present state of the lunatic asylums in Ireland" / by William Saunders Hallaran. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    May 2isf, i8io.'^ ** I have vliited the Houfe of Induftry, and was highly gra- tified to find the wards fo clean and well regulated. What princi- pally pleafed me was the kindnefs with which the unfortunate luna- tics are treated, yet all completely amenable to their keeper, who appears to me a man highly quahfied for his fituation. I had no conception that fo fmaU a city as Limerick could fupport fo noble an inflitution 1 f Signed) «J.H. THOMPSON.'^, Nil facilius est quam vera dicere. Doftor Poole's letter, addrefled to Do6tor Halliday, from Wa- terford, is too convincing a proof that there remains a greater fliare of inattention to the necefiities of the lunatic department there, than could have been wifhed or expefled ; efpecially as I am very credibly informed that its Houfe of Induftry is one of the beft re- gulated in Ireland. Do6lor Poole's letter fpeaks moft forcibly^4;o the wifdom and fpirit of the country, and muft afford a conviftion as to the propriety of looking more ferioufly to the better regula- tions of its lunatic afylums. ^INIS-t