Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1843

Maintenance of deaf and dumb or blind children in institutions approved by the commissioners.

14. The guardians of any union may send any destitute poor deaf and dumb or blind child under the age of eighteen to any institution for the maintenance of the deaf and dumb or blind which may be approved of by the commissioners, with the consent of the parents or guardians of such child, and may pay the expence of its maintenance there out of the rates raised under the authority of the said first-recited Act.