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The State of Lunacy in 1866 (Great Britain and Ireland)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

C. L. R.
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The following tables are compiled from the three official lunacy reports of the kingdom, and give (Table I) the total number of lunatics and idiots in England and Wales, in Scotland, and in Ireland, on the 1st January, 1867, with their place of maintenance and (Table II) their distribution per cent. at the same date.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 13 , Issue 64 , January 1868 , pp. 449 - 472
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1868 

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References

* A second asylum for the county of Surrey, with 650 beds, has been opened at Brookwood since the publication of this report.Google Scholar

* Patients in parochial asylums and lunatic wards of poor-houses are embraced in the Scotch returns, but not in the English.Google Scholar

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