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The County Asylums Act created a direct link between central government and the parish , as magistrates were ordered to send statistical returns to the Secretary of State regarding admissions and deaths . The Madhouse Act extended the principle of inspection by commissioners but altered the administrative arrangements which 30 Mental Health , Social Policy and the Law were associated with it. The commissioners of the Roy al Coll ege of Ph ysicians which had been creat ed in 1774 were repl aced by fifteen commission er s appointed by the Secretar y of State for the Home Department.
In addition, visits were made to York , St Luke's, London and Nottingham , and to private madhouses at Hoxton and in the provinces. The select committee, chaired by George Rosen, and Lord Robert Seymour. " It is worth considering some of the evidence taken by the select committee from the twenty-five witnesses who testified to them, and from their own visits . The most dramatic and politically powerful account came from the committee's visit to Bethlem in May 1814. During that visit, a secluded room was found where an American seaman, William Norris, aged 55, was confined.
Place of social class in mental health policy was o ne which had long historical roots. Th e laws which oversaw the lunacy question created differing pro vision s for specific social classes, and in turn these laws became a ve hicle for debate betw een differing classes in parli ament. Ho wever , lun acy policy was but one facet of En glish life that was beginning to undergo cha nge . Th e fact that lunacy became the subject of form al public policy by the mid-eighteenth century was witn ess to th e scope of such cha nge.