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  2. Lunatic asylum - Wikipedia

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    The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital . Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylum.

  3. Lunacy Act 1845 - Wikipedia

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    The Lunacy Act 1845 or the Lunatics Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 100) and the County Asylums Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 126) formed mental health law in England and Wales from 1845 to 1890. The Lunacy Act's most important provision was a change in the status of mentally ill people to patients .

  4. County Asylums Act 1808 - Wikipedia

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    96) formed mental health law in England and Wales from 1808 to 1845. Notably, the Asylums Act established public mental asylums in Britain that could be operated by the county government. [ 1 ] It permitted, but did not compel, justices of the peace to provide establishments for the care of pauper lunatics, so that they could be removed from ...

  5. History of psychiatry - Wikipedia

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    Here, those with serious mental problems were isolated from the rest of the community in accordance with contemporary European practice. [14] Also founded in the 13th century, Bethlem Royal Hospital in London was one of the oldest lunatic asylums. [13] In the late 17th century, privately run asylums for the insane began to proliferate and ...

  6. Commissioners in Lunacy - Wikipedia

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    The Commissioners in Lunacy or Lunacy Commission was a public body established by the Lunacy Act 1845 to oversee asylums and the welfare of mentally ill people in England and Wales. It succeeded the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy.

  7. Dorothea Dix - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 December 2024. American social reformer (1802–1887) This article is about the 19th-century activist. For the journalist, see Dorothy Dix. Dorothea Dix Born Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-04-04) April 4, 1802 Hampden, Maine, US Died July 17, 1887 (1887-07-17) (aged 85) Trenton, New Jersey, US Occupation ...

  8. Timeline of disability rights outside the United States

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    The two acts were dependent on each other. The Lunacy Act established the Lunacy Commission and the County Asylums Act set forth most of the provisions as to what was to be monitored within the asylums and helped establish the public network of the county asylums. Like the Lunacy Act, there had been several drafts of this act passed before 1845 ...

  9. Involuntary commitment - Wikipedia

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    Public mental asylums were established in Britain after the passing of the 1808 County Asylums Act. This empowered magistrates to build rate-supported asylums in every county to house the many "pauper lunatics". Nine counties first applied, and the first public asylum opened in 1812 in Nottinghamshire.