Annual report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland : 16th 1874

  • Great Britain. General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland.
Date:
1874
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Credit: Annual report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland : 16th 1874. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE PERO HAR Del Ayo OR OS Spo MePx Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department. GENERAL Boarp or Lunacy, Epinpureu, 24th February 1874. Sir, We have the honour to lay before you our Sixteenth 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 gtatisties January 1873, exclusive of unreported lunatics maintained in of Insanity; private dwellings from private sources, were as follows :— Number and Distri- Taste I. bution of the Insane. Mode of Distribution. Male. | Female.| Total. Male.|Female. |Total.f Male. |Female. er | |e | ee Fe | se | ee In Royal and Dis- trict Asylums, | 2313 | 2352 | 4665 | 507| 482 | 989; 1806 | 1870 Sorrivaic ,, 132 | 210] 342] 93) 167 ,», Parochial ,, 276 | 394 | 670 | ww | coe | ove >| 394 », Lunatic Wards of Poorhouses, .| 243] 313] 556 ,, General Prison, . 39 15 54 », Training Schools for Imbeciles, 84 47 | 181 », Private Dwellings,| 673 | 891 | 1564 TOTALS, 3760 | 4222 | 7982 | 698| 725 |1423] 3062 | 3497 | 6559 It thus appears, that of insane persons in Scotland, of whom we have official cognizance, 1423 are maintained from private sources ; 6505 by parochial rates; and 54 at the expense of the State. Of the unreported insane maintained by their friends in private dwellings we have no certain knowledge. We formerly estimated their number at nearly two thousand, of whom the larger propor- tion belonged to the classes little removed from pauperism; but they are now probably less numerous, from the increasing tendency to accept parochial relief. 4 aa