---------------------------------+-----------+---------+----------- Location. | Lunatics. | Idiots. | Totals. ---------------------------------+-----------+---------+----------- Richmond Asylum | 168 | 112 | 280 Lunatic ward of House of Industry| 442 | -- | 442 Private asylums (4) near Dublin | 101 | -- | 101 City and County Asylum, Cork | 138 | 64 | 202 Asylum at Waterford | 103 | -- | 103 " Armagh | 64 | -- | 64 Jail at Lifford | 18 | -- | 18 Private house, Downpatrick | 17 | -- | 17 County Infirmary, Derry | 12 | -- | 12 Old Jail, Roscommon | 19 | -- | 19 Asylum, Ennis | 14 | -- | 14 " Kilkenny | 14 | -- | 14 House of Industry, Tipperary | 32 | -- | 32 " Waterford | 57 | 48 | 105 " Wexford | 37 | -- | 37 Asylum, Limerick | 74 | -- | 74 Dean Swift's Hospital | 50 | -- |(about) 50 +-----------+---------+------------ Total | 1360 | 224 | 1584 ---------------------------------+-----------+---------+------------ Sir Andrew Halliday, aware that these numbers bore no proportion to the actual number of insane and idiots in Ireland, reckoned the number at three thousand. In 1830 the Richmond Asylum, Dublin, was converted into a District Lunatic Asylum for the city of Dublin by the Act 11 Geo. IV., c. 22.[264] Passing on to 1842, the Solicitor-General for Ireland in that year introduced a "Bill for amending the Law relating to Private Lunatic Asylums in Ireland," which became law August 12, 1842. It is not necessary, however, to give its details in this place, and I shall proceed to notice the important Report of the Committee of the House of Lords, with minutes of evidence, which was issued in 1843.[265] A table is given of the district asylums and the Cork Asylum, from which it appears that at that period the number amounted to ten, viz. Armagh, Belfast, Carlow, Clonmel, Connaught, Limerick, Londonderry, Maryborough, Richmond, and Waterford.