Why Was the Act for Regulating Madhouses Created

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