A letter to Lord Robert Seymour: with a report of the number of lunatics and idiots in England and Wales / [Sir Andrew Halliday].

  • Andrew Halliday
Date:
1829
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A letter to Lord Robert Seymour: with a report of the number of lunatics and idiots in England and Wales / [Sir Andrew Halliday]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    22/88 page 10
    measures about forty miles from north to south, and about thirty from east to west. It is divided into two parts by the river Derwent. In the eastern division the air is mild and the tempera¬ ture agreeable, the soil fruitful, and well culti¬ vated ; but in the western division the face of the country is rude and mountainous, and the soil, except in the valleys, rocky and sterile. The mountains in Derbyshire produce considerable quantities of lead ore and some antimony, and abundance of that particular mineral so well known as the Derbyshire spar, a combination of lime with fluoric acid. A part of the population of the county of Derby is employed in the manu¬ facture of silk and cotton ; but the chief employ¬ ment is the making of earthenware, and forming ornamental figures of the spar above mentioned. Not above one-third of the inhabitants are em¬ ployed in agriculture. The number of lunatics and idiots in this county is said to be seventy-six males and sixty-eight females. Fourteen males and nine females are returned as dangerous; and seven¬ teen males and twelve females are in confinement, — seven in public and twenty-two in private asylums. There is no public or private asylum for the treat¬ ment of lunatics within the bounds of this county. Population DEVONSHIRE. y Males... . 208,229 ) (Females.. 230,811 j Total..439,040 This extensive county is sixty-nine miles in length from north to south, and sixty-six in
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3