Annual report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland : 7th 1865

  • Great Britain. General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Annual report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland : 7th 1865. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    } Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland. vil In the first three years of the series, the proportion exempted from removal is considerably higher than in the second three years, owing to the number of unintimated chronic cases which the first visitations of the Commissioners brought to light. The number of those intimated in each year who are sent to asylums is wonderfully steady ; and the proportion exempted from removal in the latter years is comparatively small, more especially in those counties which possess abundant asylum accommodation. The preceding Tables refer exclusively to pauper lunatics ; that which follows shows the number of private patients as well A oF paupers placed in establishments in each year from 1858 to 864:— | fs | ns | i | re | ee | ef 199°8 | 389°0 | 474°1 | 5641 |1038°2 | 663°2 | 764°0 | 1427°2 AVERAGE = | 189.1 Numbers placed in Establishments,* YEARS. | Private. Pauper. General Total. Male. Female.| Total. | Male. |Female.| Total. | Male. |Female.} Total. el oe aia! ee 1858 1938: | . 213 406 | 436 606 | 1042 629 819 | 1448 1859 201 190 | 391 |) 476 | 555 | 1031 677 745 | 1422 1860 | 166 | 215 381 | 488 | 573 | 1061 654 | 788 ) 1442 1861 220, 215 | 485] 475 | 586) 1061 695 | 801 | 1496 1862 192 192 | 384] 449) 541 990 | 641 733 | 1374 1863 173 | 207 | 880) 472] 536; 1008 | 645] 743 | 1388 1864 179-1. 167 346 | 523 | 552 | 1075 | 702! 719 | 1421 The same steadiness is observed in the general results of this “Table as in that immediately preceding it. The following ‘Table shows the number of orders granted by the Sheriffs of different counties during the year 1864, for authorizing the admission of patients into asylums, and the nature of the houses for which they were granted :— * The figures in this Table exclude transfers but include re-admissions. ‘The pauper numbers are, accordingly, always in excess of those in the Table on p. vi. The figures of the Table on p. ix. refer to patients whether in or out of asylums ; hence the apparent excess of pauper deaths in comparison with the recoveries, which, with very few excep- tions, are limited to asylums. The growth of pauper lunacy may be followed approxi- mately, by comparing the results of the Table on p. vi. with those of the Table on p. ix. Thus: total intimations in six years, 6953 ; total removals from register, 6397. Increase, 556. The real increase, deduced from the Annual Returns, is, however, 683. Statisties of Insanity.