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TRANSACTIONS OF THE SECTIONS. Uh 
Number of Out-patients and their Attendances since 1862. 
2 
Male Patients. Female Patients. 
New | Attend-| New | Attend- 
cases. ances. Cases. ances. 
1862 1174 5503 227 |) 1178 
1863 | 3159 17791 573 | 3797 
1864 | 3998 22397 697 | 4365 
1865 | 4087 22531 597 ; 3632 
1866 | 4227 22994. 639 4087 
1867 | 4216 21311 691 4330 
1868 2397 11488 375 2333 
23258 | 124015 | 3799 2.3682 
Attendances. 
Total male new cases ...... 23258 |Male ...... 124015 
Total female new cases ...) 3799 |Female ...| 23682 
Total in nearly six years...| 27057 147697 
Expense of medicine for each out-patient averages 1s. 6d. The expense of food 
per diem does not exceed 1s, in the Male Lock Hospital. 
THE ASYLUM. 
Admitted from July 1787, to 31st December 1867............ 2043 
Restored to their friends since commencement .............+ 409 
Placed in respectable services ....c0..csce..sevcesceeeeeresseeeees 616 
Left at their own request .............ceeeessees edvceisestin eee es ces 926 
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Remaining in the Asylum 31st December 1867 ............... 65 
2.043 
On the Recent Improvements in Norfolk Farming. By C. 8. Reap, MP. 
Statistics of the Progress and Extermination of the Cattle Plague in Norfolk. 
By W. Surrs, WR.C.V.S. 
On the Natural System of Coinage. By G. Jounstonr Stoney, MA., F.B.S. 
It is generally agreed that neither a silver standard for coinage nor a double 
standard of gold and silver is practicable on a wide scale or for along time. An 
inquiry relating to coinage may therefore be based on the assumption that gold, 
whatever be its defects for the office, must be accepted as the real and sole standard 
of monetary value. And if we wish to reason with precision we must limit the 
statement, and say that coined gold is the standard of monetary value; since coined 
old has, and must have unless overissued, a slightly higher market price than gold 
In the ingot. 
Accordingly if we omit (as is the universal practice) the value of the alloy, gold 
coins have to one another yalues in the exact proportion of the weights of pure 
gold they contain. Thus the sovereign containing 732 centigrams of gold and the 
napoleon 580, no amount of manipulation would enable these coins to bear to one 
another any other ratio than that of 732 to 580, if we except the slight disturbance 
of this ratio which arises out of the depreciation of napoleons in England from their 
not being current coin. 
1868, 12 
