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    I N SA N ITY , PAST AND PRESENT. 317

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    Qp Insanity, Like Other Diseases, Change...

    sons insane ; taking" the average on the whole population , the proportion divide lunatics would be into about four one classes in every viz . seven : criminal hundred lunatics . It is lunatics usual in to

    . private and of Chancery lastl asy y , l lunatics ums But , lunatics found it confined to b be etter , such in answer b count y inquisition y our and purpose boroug under , h to the asy simp Court lums ly ,

    . may chargeable place them to in the two parish divisions . — Of those the first of independent , the reported but mean num thi s b , in and was those on

    1 st January , 1860 , 4 , 831 ; of the latter , 18 , 022 ; s reality include is no definite the unrecognised guide to the cases actual among amount the of indep lunacy endent —for class it does either not

    , residing ive - with statement friends in or reference boarded out to those as sing paupers le patient , who s , , nor thoug does h of it

    unsound gany mindare retained in workhouses , are living with relations , or who are farmed , out in lodings . For an account of the

    recogg nised lunatics we must _g"O to the Commissioners in Lunacy , —for the unrecognised lunatics to the Poor Law Boardand other indirect

    , authorities . The following table is a statement of the number of the insane in various asylums on January 1 st , 1860 .

    Private . Pauper . Males . Females . Total . Males . Females . Total .

    County Hitals and Borough Asylums 1003 122 773 105 1 , 227 776 7 , 129 8 , 489 108 15 , 618

    Provincial Metropolitan osp Licensed Licensed ... Houses Houses .:. . , 837 624 704 1 , , 287 541 465 469 455 799 1 , 264 924

    2 , 625 2 , 206 4 , 831 8 , 166 9 , 851 18 , 022 r In London there are thirty-seven licensed housesaiid

    seventylunatic nine in the lum provinces s throug . hout In 1859 England , the and admissions "Wales int amounted , o the various of all

    classes to asy 4 , 528 men , and 4 , 5 76 women ; discharged as recovered , 1476 menand 1757 women ; died , 1 , 305 men , and 1 , 020 women ,

    thus of , ab le out avin three , g an th increase ousand , in The the actu persons al number discharged of recognised uncured lun thoug atics h

    . , they amounting mustin to whatever 5 , 915 , cannot lace be they deducted reside from be still the reckone total number d as form , as

    -, . p , ing We a portion have hinted of the at insan the e difficult population y of of obtaining the country correct . returns of

    b the the pauper Poor lunatics Law Board . On we reference find that to at the the annual commencement statement of s made 1860

    the y total number of paupers , in receipt of relief amounted to 850 , 896 ; of these 31543 were reported to be of unsound mind , viz ., insane ,

    22378 , idiots , 9165 . In accordance with the rule laid down , insanit , y ; by thi , s return , is found to be most prevalent in the immediate neighborhood of the metropolis , and least so but in rarel the agricultural met with

    counties ; while idiotcy is exactly the reverse—y

    I N Sa N Ity , Past And Present. 317

    I N SA N ITY , PAST AND PRESENT . 317

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1861, page 317, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011861/page/29/