Why Was the Act for Regulating Madhouses Created

question 27

Multiple Choice

Why was the Act for Regulating Madhouses created?

• A) To create public sympathy for the mentally ill and reduce the public's fear responses
• B) To improve the deplorable conditions of mental institutions and keep the mentally ill from being unjustly imprisoned
• C) To provide services for poor people confined to workhouses
• D) To reduce crime in the neighbourhoods by removing unstable people from the streets

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