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Asylums or additional buildings may be appropriated for the exclusive reception of particular classes of pauper lunatics, distinguishable by the character of the disease.
Provincial asylums may be established and appropriated to particular classes.
Removal of patients from one asylum to another.
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15. In order to provide for the more effectual treatment of pauper lunatics by a better classification of the same, it shall and may be lawful for the lord lieutenant, by and with the advice and consent of her Majesty’s privy council in Ireland, from time to time and at all times, whenever and so often as shall seem expedient to him so to do, to direct and order that any existing asylum or additional buildings which may be made to existing asylums under the provisions of this Act shall and may be exclusively appropriated for the sole and exclusive reception, custody, and treatment of a particular class of the said pauper lunatics, distinguishable by the nature and character of the disease, and whether recent in its origin or chronic, or whether considered curable or incurable, or to direct and order that a provincial asylum for the lunatic poor shall be erected, established, and maintained in and for any or each of the provinces of Ireland, to be so appropriated to any particular class or classes of lunatic poor of such province as aforesaid, such provincial asylums to be in addition to any district asylum or asylums erected or to be erected under said recited Acts or any of them, and from time to time to make rules and orders for the government and control thereof, and for the admission of lunatics thereto; and with the view to make room in any such district lunatic asylum appropriated for the treatment and reception of recent and curable cases for patients deemed capable of cure, it shall and may be lawful for the lord lieutenant from time to time to cause to be removed from such district lunatic asylum, to such other asylum connected with such district, and appropriated specially for chronic cases or cases apprehended to be incurable, any lunatics who shall be certified by the committee of management, the manager, and by the medical officer, of such first-mentioned district asylum, as a proper patient to be removed to an asylum for chronic lunatics for such district, or connected therewith.
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