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On the Lunatic Asylums in the United States. 



nnecticut Asylum. 

 Recent cases, - - 97 

 Old cases, - - 99 



nay be compared with the result at the 

 treat near York, (from 1796 to 1319.) 

 Recent cases, - - 92 

 Old cases, - - 161 



Bloomingdale, 693 350 



Connecticut, 108 88 



In explanation of the great excess of males in the first of these, 

 a fact mentioned to me by Dr. A. V. Williams of New-York, 

 (who was for several years, house physician at the Asylum) may 

 be stated. It is, that in the Bellevue Hospital, where the pau- 

 per lunatics are confined, the females greatly exceed the males ; 

 and probably, if the gross amount of both establishments were 

 taken, the difference would not be great. 



In Scotland, in 1818, according to the returns made by the 

 clergy of the established church, the respective numbers were, 

 Males, 2,311. Females, 2,339. 



Dr. Esquirol, in the work already quoted, after noticing the re- 

 turns from Asylums in every part of Europe, and showing that fe- 

 male lunatics are most numerous in France, Spain and Holland, 

 and male ones in England, Germany, Denmark and Russia, makes 

 a <n-and total of all, (including some trifling details from this coun- 

 try,) and finds the number to be 



37,S25 Males. 33,701 Females. 



