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State of Lunacy in Great Britain and Ireland. 1868

The Lunacy Blue Books for 1868

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

J. T. D.
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The Twenty-third Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy is dated 31st March, 1869. It is a thick volume of 408 pages, of which 107 comprise the report proper, the remainder forming the usual appendices, which consist of—

  1. (A.) The number of insane persons in asylums.

  2. (B.) Licences and change of proprietorships.

  3. C.D. Average weekly cost of maintenance in asylums and hospitals in 1868.

  4. (E.) Entries in visitors' books of county and borough asylums.

  5. (F.) The state of the Criminal Asylum, Broadmoor.

  6. (G.) Entries in visitors' books in hospitals.

  7. (H.) Entries at Fort Pitt and Yarmouth.

  8. (I.) Isle of Man Asylum. Report of Superintendent.

  9. (J.) Pauper lunatics and idiots not in asylums, &c.

  10. (K.) Workhouses.

  11. (L.) Statistical tables, with a copy of entry made by Commissioners on a special visit to St. Luke's Hospital, and the reply of the Committee thereto.

Type
Part II.—Reviews
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 15 , Issue 72 , January 1870 , pp. 588 - 613
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1870 

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References

2 Eleventh Annual Report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland. Presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. Edinburgh; printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Thomas Constable, 1869.Google Scholar

3 Lunatic Asylums, Ireland. The Eighteenth Report of the District Criminal and Private Lunatic Asylums in Ireland: with Appendices. Presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. Dublin: printed by Alexander Thorn, 87 & 88, Abbey Street, for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1869.Google Scholar

∗ The bulk of them belonging to that border class, in which often it is impossible to draw the line between Criminality and Insanity.Google Scholar

∗ These are State Patients.Google Scholar

† These are not certified as Lunatics.Google Scholar

∗ De l'Alienation Mentale et du Cretinisme en Suisse, par le Docteur L. Lunier. Paris, 1868; p. 102.Google Scholar

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