A practical manual of mental medicine / by E. Régis ; with a preface by M. Benjamin Ball ; authorised translation by H.M. Bannister.
- Date:
- 1895
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A practical manual of mental medicine / by E. Régis ; with a preface by M. Benjamin Ball ; authorised translation by H.M. Bannister. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![were 16,538 insane or 4.96 to each 10,000 inhab- itants; in 1841, 18,367 or 5.37 to each 10,000; 1861, 46,357 or 12.95; in 1866, 90,709 or 23.82; in 1876, 83,012 or 22.50 to the 10,000. Judging only from these results it would appear that the number of the insane among us has quintupled dur- ing the past thirty-five years, but there is in this evidently an exaggeration due to the greater accuracy of the recent censuses. If we take the insane, not as enumerated in the census, but the number admit- ted to the hospitals, we find that the increase of ad- missions which was annually 12.5 per cent, forty years ago, is to-day only 1.70 percent. The num- ber of admissions has therefore a tendency to be- come stationary. This proves, as Lunier states, that the increase in the number of the insane, admitting that it exists, is, in any event, less con- siderable than is generally believed. Another interesting series of statistics is that of the insane of the Department of the Seine from 1801 to 1883. It is seen from these figures, that there Avere on January 1, 1801, 945 insane maintained at public expense, while on the 31st of December, 1883, the number was 8,907, or more than six times greater, while in the same space of time the general population of Paris has hardly more than tri])led itself, having been 600,000 at the beginning of the century and 2,237,928 by the census of 1881. The statistics^of other countries seem likewise to afford contradictory results.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21963009_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
