A Further Note on the Alleged Increase of Lunacy

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At the Second Quarterly Meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association (January 28th, 1869), I read a paper on The Alleged Increase of Lunacy. I there observed that the alleged increase of lunacy is a frequent theme of discussion in the public press, as also a subject of anxious enquiry in society, and that there is hardly a Board-room of any county asylum in which the question is not raised with the practical intent of determining the amount of provision to be made for the care and treatment of the insane poor, and I added that, in order to satisfy such enquiries on the part of the Visitors of the Hayward's Heath Asylum, I had recently endeavoured to see if our existing statistical records afford any means of solving this pressing question, Is lunacy on the increase in our generation? Moreover, considering the opportunity of the second quarterly meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association, for scientific discussion, might fitly be used for the farther sifting of this important State question, I then submitted to its critical examination the figures and results with which my enquiry into the alleged increase of lunacy had furnished me. These results, which were worked out in a series of carefully compiled tables, I may thus briefly sum up:—1.—Total Numbers of the Insane.

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