The County Asylums Act 1808 formed

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from 1808 to 1845. Notably, the Asylums Act established public mental asylums in Britain that could be operated by the county government. It permitted, but did not compel, Justices of the Peace to provide establishments for the care of pauper lunatics, so that they could be removed from workhouses and prisons. The Act is also known as ''Mr. Wynn's Act'', after Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn, a

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, who promoted the act.

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