Twenty-fourth annual report of the Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : from the first of January to the end of the year 1871.

  • Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1872
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Credit: Twenty-fourth annual report of the Somerset County Pauper Lunatic Asylum : from the first of January to the end of the year 1871. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE V. Showing the number of Pauper Lunatics, Idiots and per¬ sons of unsound mind in Asylums, Hospitals, and residing with relatives or others chargeable to the Unions in the County of Somerset. MALES. FEMALES. TOTAL. In County and Borough Asylums 256 337 593 In Asylum chargeable to the County rate. 4 3 i 260 540 600 In Registered Hospitals and Licen- sed Houses...,... 1 — 1 In Workhouses... 124 157 281 Residing with Relatives or others 126 197 323 251 354 605 Total.... 1,205 [These figures include the Bath and Bridgwater patients, since they are all chargeable to the Bath and Bridgwater Unions. In the table however, p. 13 of the Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy,, another column is given of patients chargeable to County and Borough rates, in all 74. There were but 7 chargeable to the County, and it seems to follow that the others are the Bath and Bridgwater patients counted over again and a grand total is thus made up of 1272. At p. 18, wdiere the proportions are given of pauper lunatics in Asylums, in Workhouses, and with their friends for the different counties of England and Wales, this number is given instead of 1205, and 668 instead of 600, and the proportion of Somerset patients in Asylum compared with those in Workhouses- or with their friends is greater than it ought to be. But for this blunder it would appear that of the Counties of England—ex¬ cluding Wales—Somerset is the one which has the smallest proportion of Lunatics in Asylums.—F. H. D.]