On the Lunatic Asylums in the United States. 



Mortality. 



Admissions. Deaths. Proportions. 



New-York Lunatic Asylum, 1584 153 1 in 10J 

 Bloomingdale Asylum, - 1043 59 1 in 17£ 



Pennsylvania Hospital, - 3487 526 1 in 6J 

 Friends' Asylum, - - 158 21 1 in 7£ 

 Connecticut Asylum, - 196 8 1 in 24£ 



According to Burrows, the mortality at the 



Wakefield Lunatic Asylum, (England,) is 1 in 4 



Lancaster Lunatic Asylum, - - - 1 in 4 



Senevra, (Milan,) 1 in 23 



Cork Lunatic Asylum, (Ireland,) - - 1 in 3 

 Glasgow Asylum, (Scotland,) - 1 in 10 



Friends' Asylum at York, (England,) - 1 in 5* 



According to Esquirol, the mortality in 

 Paris, is - 

 Aversa, (Naples,) 



Proportion of Insane to the whole Population of the State. 

 According to the census of 1825, the state of New-York con- 

 tained a population of 1,616,458. 



The number of Lunatics was 819 

 of Idiots, 1421 



2240 



Or, lin 721. 



In Scotland, the proportion is one in 400 

 In Paris, - - - one in 350 

 In London, - - - one in 600 



In England and Wales, one in 2000 (Burrows.) 



There can hardly be a question, that the estimate for Great 

 Britain is greatly too low ; but even granting it to be the same with 

 London, and thus making the result in our own state more favour- 



