Local Government Act, 1925

Lunatic Asylums to be styled “mental hospitals.”

79.—All district lunatic asylums maintained by county councils under section 9 of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898 , shall henceforth be styled and known as district mental hospitals, and the title of every such district lunatic asylum shall be and is hereby amended by the substitution therein of the words “mental hospital” for the words “lunatic asylum.”