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ory of insanity, and since this date the whole machinery of 
the Lunacy Commissioners has had its origin, In 1853 an Act 
y ordered a quarterly return of lunatics not in asylums, and in 1861 
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from a fear of burthening their 
P own parish rates, and led to is placing of many idiots, formerly at 
ome, in the county asylum 
_. In 1874 a grant of 4s. a > Head per week was made from t 
: and this has caused the shifting of no incons iderable pokes of 
ae aged and demented from the pauper to the lunatic li cme 
ty Romeident with these changes in England there rea been 
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authorities of Benevolent Asylums and Poor-houses have not been 
‘slow. to take advantage of, so as to rid themselves of a large number 
li or quasi- seh institutions 
: 2. eh ceumulation of Jacatvalile cases and the lower rate of 
it 
“wag the ghee succumbed in large numbers from neglect 
8 cruelty, whilst now id asylum care bee Tt live to a ‘fair, 23 
often to an advanced a 
To show the effect of a gus death rate on the inerease of insanity 
causing an accumulation of old and chronic cases, and by way — 
r, , tinder 7 per cent. of the average same resident. . ia 
‘Buiter then, in an asylum with an average number resi 
1,000, and an admission rate of 300 per annum, we have 100 
. and 180 discharges, a total of 280 per annum, leaving an 
; of 20 only ; whilst i in an Ev RNE asylum, of 
spac y an r receiving the same 
