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29 November, 1915 Sir, I am directed by the Inspectors to state that
they have been instructed by Government to request
that your Committee will kindly submit Regulations
for the management of the Asylum in pursuance of sec—
tion 9 (sub—section 6) of the Local Government
(Ireland) Act, 1898. I am
Sir
Your Obedient Servant, The Resident Medical Superintendent District Asylum KILKENNY
Letter from William Richard Dawson (1864-1950), the inspector of lunatics, to the
Resident Medical Superintendent of Kilkenny. The letter is an instruction for the
government to submit regulations to the asylum under section 9 sub section 6 of local
Government Act (Ireland) 1898. William Richard Dawson was appointed HM inspector of
lunatics in Ireland in 1911. During the Great War he served in the Royal Ambulance
Medical Corps, gaining the rank of lieutenant-colonel, as a specialist in ‘nerve disease’
or shell shock to the troops in Ireland.