County Asylums Act 1828

County Asylums Act 1828
Long title An Act to amend the Laws for the Erection and Regulation of County Lunatic Asylums. And more effectually to provide for the care and maintenance of Pauper and Criminal Lunatics in England [1]

The County Asylums Act 1828 was an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom. It required magistrates to send annual records of admissions, discharges and deaths to the Home Office; and allowed the Secretary of State to send a visitor to any county asylum, although the visitor couldn't intervene in how the asylum was run.[2] It also allowed counties to borrow money to build an asylum, but it had to be paid back within 14 years of the initial loan.[3] It also imposed the requirement of a residential medical officer, whose permission was necessary to justify the restraint of a patient.[4]

Background

Issues of mistreatment and abuse, raised in a 1917 Select Committee report, quickened reform, leading to this Act of Parliament.[5]

At the time of Royal Assent, 9 county asylums had been established in England, and the need for more was growing due to overcrowding.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Roberts, Andrew. "Mental Health History Timeline". www.studymore.org.uk. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
  2. ↑ Puri, Basant; Brown, Rob; McKee, Heather; Treasaden, Ian (2005). Mental Health Law: a practical guide. CRC Press. p. 4. ISBN 0340885033.
  3. ↑ Ball, Christopher Allan (2010). MENTAL HEALTH LEGISLATION IN NEW ZEALAND FROM 1846 TO DATE: A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (PDF). Eastern Institute of Technology, Taradale, New Zealand. Eastern Institute of Technolog. p. 31.
  4. ↑ McCrae, Niall; Nolan, Peter (2016). The Story of Nursing in British Mental Hospitals: Echoes from the Corridors. Routledge. ISBN 1317812387.
  5. ↑ Patrick Raftery, James (2014). The Economics of Psychiatric Services in the UK and Ireland, 1845-1985 (PDF). Faculty of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London. ProQuest. pp. 37 (Actually 39 in the PDF).
  6. ↑ Butterworth, Hannah. "The Evolution of Attitudes and Treatments Regarding Mental Health Disorders" (PDF). Think. The University Of Edinburgh Student Psychology Journal. no. 4: 1.
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