Annual report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland : 17th 1875

  • Great Britain. General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Annual report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland : 17th 1875. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE RICHARD A. CROSS, MP. Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department. GENERAL Boarp or Lunacy, Epinsureu, 24th February 1875. Sir, | We have the honour to lay before you our Seventeenth Annual Report on the Condition and Management of Lunatics and Lunatic Asylums in Scotland. The number and distribution of the insane in Scotland on Ist Statistics January 1874, exclusive of unreported lunatics maintained in of Insanity. private dwellings from private sources, were as follows :— aoe. and Distri- TaBLe I. bution of the Insane. SS PE RE EP ie at SS Pauper. Private. Mode of Distribution. Male. | Female.} Total. Male.|Female. |Total. Male. |Female.| Total. — In Royal and Dis- trict Asylums, | 2306 | 2411 | 4717 | 518) 501 |1019} 1788 | 1910 | 3698 » Private — ,, 126 | 212| 338| 90] 171| 261) 36] 41| 77 », Parochial ,, 314 | 434| 748]... | .. |... | 314] 434| 748 », Lunatic Wards of Poorhouses, . | 246} 319] 565 246 | 319] 565 ,, General Prison, . 38 13 51 38 13 51 ,, Training Schools 82 51 | 133 63, 36| 99 » Private Dwellings,| 648 | 869 | 1517] 37; 39] 76 Torats, | 3760 | 4809 | 8069 | 708} 747 |1455 3052 | 3562 | 6614 It thus appears, that of insane persons in Scotland, of whom we have official cognizance, 1455 are maintained from private sources ; 6563 by parochial rates; and 51 at the expense of the State. Of the unreported insane maintained by their friends in private dwellings we have no certain knowledge. In 1858 we estimated their number at nearly two thousand, of whom the larger propor- tion belonged to the classes little removed from pauperism. A