Report of the Royal Commission on the care and control of the feeble-minded, Volume VIII.

  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-minded.
Date:
1908
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    conjoint area ; the figures are estimated on present basis of expenditure, see paragraphs 837-844, and we may supplement them by adding estimates of the number of certified pauper lunatics and mentally defective inebriates :— ROUGH ESTIMATES: CONJOINT AREA. Population 2,362,222. | PART VIII. FINANCE. Chapter XL. numbers and expenditure in a conjoint investi- gated area, according to classes. Class. 1 I. Education : Scholars on the Registers. II. Poor Law : (1) In-door Paupers (2) Out door Paupers III. Lunacy : (1) Uncertified Lunatics (2) Certified Pau- per Lunatics. Total re- ported as Mentally Defective. 2 3,437 2,864 997 [1,414] '8,067 Estimated Annual Cost of Col. 2, 3 Total re- ported as “needing provision.’ 4 £ 34,370 81,767 6,929 IV. Local Prisoners j 246 V. Mentally defective Inebriates. '27 VI. Persons outside any of the above classes. 3,381 219,.503 6,642 1,080 2,590 481 388 [1,414] Estimated Annual Cost of Col. 4. 5 £ 25,900 13,732 2,696 216 87,906 1,181 5,832 These are Estimates. Whether already and to what extent chargeable to State or Local Fund,?. 6 30,706 These would be already chargeable to the extent of about .£10 each, if the Elementary Education (Defective and Epileptic Children) Act of 1899 were made compulsory.! Already chargeable. Yearly charge taken at £28 11s. subject to considerations mentioned in the text. Already chargeable at £6 19s. Reported by Medical In- vestigators as certifiable, and if certified would bs chargeable at the cost of £27*21 for maintenance. Practically 1,000 of these are already chargeable under the Poor Law —II. above, as indoor or out- door paupers. See Statis- tics, pp. 56, 58, 60, Part III., Reports of the Medi- cal Investigators, Vol. VI. Others are to be found in the other classes; especially in Class VI. This isa proportional number for the Conjoint Area. The cost is taken at £27*21 for maintenance. These are already maintained. Already qua prisoners chargeable to the State while in prison. Annual cost of prisoner £27a head. Already chargeable. The number (col. 2) estimated. See Report of Inspector for the year 1905 [Cd. 3246] p. 5. “Under de- tention at end of year” in Certified Inebriate Re- foi matories, 970. Of those 45 per cent, estimated as mentally defective (see paragraph 413 above): 436 therefore taken to be mentally defective: or in “ conjoint area ” only, 27. The maintenance expendi- ture, less cost of farm,, garden, and industrial occupation, averages £40. —Report of the Inspector under the Inebriates Acts for year 1905 (Cd. 3246), pp. 70 and 71. Not already chargeable. Es- timated charge 10-'. a week t The estimate may be made in another wav—that adopted in the case of Ireland (see Paragraph 1100 (c) p. 437). It may be estimated (Kerr, Vol. I., p. 435, col. 1) that 25 per cent, of the mentally defective children will require maintenance in some kind of home or colony, and at present charges the cost per child so dealt with may be entered at £29 (Vol. III., p. 335). Roth these factors—the number of the children to be so dealt with and the cost per child—are open to revision on further experience, and the cost especially may be considered high. But, subject to these qualifications, the estimate would, on these terms, be £38,193 for children “ needing provision ” as against £25,900, the figure m the text.