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INSANITY IN ENGLAND AND WALESA 



According to the Sixtieth. Keport of the 

 Commissioners in Lunacy for England and 

 Wales, recently issued, the number of certified 

 in&ane persons under care on January 1, 1906, 

 in England and Wales was 121,979, of whom 

 9,802 were private patients, 111,256 pauper 

 patients and 921 criminal lunatics. Of the 

 total number, 89,342 were maintained in 

 county and borough asylums, 17,742 in work- 

 houses and metropolitan district asylums, 7,973 

 in registered hospitals, licensed houses and in 

 naval and military hospitals, 776 were in the 

 criminal lunatic asylum at Broadmoor, 528 

 were private single patients and there were 

 5,618 outdoor pauper lunatics. 



The report shows a total increase in the 

 number of the certified insane of 2,150 over 

 the numbers of the previous year. This in- 

 crease compares favorably with the increments 

 of the three previous years, which were 2,630 

 for 1904, 3,235 for 1903 and 3,251 for 1902. 

 Further, it is less by 404 than the annual 

 average increase for the decennium ending 

 December 31, 1905, namely, 2,554, and less by 

 657 than the average increase for the latter 

 half of this decennium, namely, 2,807. Com- 

 pared with 1904 the private patients have in- 

 creased by 162, the criminal lunatics by 9 and 

 the pauper patients by 1,979, the increase in 

 the private patients being greater by 79, but 

 the increase of the criminal lunatics being 

 less by 26 and that of the pauper patients by 



' From the British Medical Journal. 



