Lunatic Asylums (Ireland) Act, 1875

Pauper patient on discharge to be forwarded in certain cases to workhouse.

11. Whenever any person being a pauper patient in any district lunatic asylum may be lawfully discharged from such asylum, the board of governors of such asylum shall, unless such patient be otherwise discharged, forward such patient to the workhouse of the union from which he was sent to such asylum, and shall pay the expenses of such removal, and the guardians of the said union shall repay to the said board of governors the expenses so paid by them as aforesaid.