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and support, and preferred to do so to entering the Liverpool 

 Asylum. Medical treatment they could obtain from the Dis- 

 pensary. 



We have now to ascertain whether the small proportion of those 

 discharged and who elect to go to the Liverpool Asylum suffer or 

 benefit by the change from an institution in which the cost of 

 each bed is £45 per annum, to another in which it is £12 Ms. 

 To ascertain this point, Mr. Frederic Bang was kind enough to 

 write to Dr. Strong, the able Superintendent of the Liverpool 

 Asylum, and submit to him the following questions from me. 



The questions, with Dr. Strong's reply, are as follows : — 

 "Questions. 



6. " Number of persons who, having been recently discharged 

 from the Infirmary at the time of their admission into the Asylum, 

 and suff"ered in consequence from the change from the one insti- 

 tution to the other, during (say) the two and a half years ending 

 June 1, 1874 ? 



7. " Number of persons who, having been recently discharged 

 from the Infirmary at the time of their admission into the Asylum, 

 and benefited in health from the change from the one institution 

 to the other, during (say) the two and a half years ending June 1, 

 1S74 ? " 



" Eeplt. 



"Liverpool Asylum, 

 " 14th June, 1874. 

 " In reference to the questions (Nos. 6 and 7) asked by Dr. 

 Eoberts, I may remarlc that I cannot speak positively to either. 



6. " I think I am correct in stating that during the last two 

 years and a half ending June 1, 1874, the average nimiber of 

 patients received from the Sydney Infirmary has been two per 

 week, and I am certain that I am within the average. I have 

 at present in hospital some twenty or more, direct from the 

 Infirmary. The number of those discharged from the Infirmary, 

 and for some reason have remained in Sydney for a day or two, 

 and then have been sent here, far exceed the above average. 



7. " My answer to this must be amalgamated with the above ; 

 for, not taking any particular interest in the place from which the 

 several patients may come, unless the case may present some 

 particular features of interest, my memory will not bear me out 

 as to the exact benefit each Infirmary patient may have received ; 

 but I should say that quite a third have been benefited by the 

 change, and have been discharged cured, or in a position to earn 

 their living outside, or have taken different places in the institu- 

 tion, whereby they make themselves useful and earn a few 

 shillings. 



"Almost in every case a temporary beneficial change takes 

 place from the remoyal from one institution to the other, the 



