Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor : 67th part 1, 1912.

Date:
1913
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Credit: Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor : 67th part 1, 1912. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tlie following table exhibits the distribution of this class during the past 30 years :— Pauper Patients.—Proportion per cent, under care on 1st January. 1883. 1893. 1903. 1913. In County and Borough Asylums 63-2 69-8 77-0 79-3 In Registered Hospitals - 0-2 0*5 0-5 0-6 In Licensed Houses 1*9 1-8 0-7 0-4 In Workhouses - 17-9 13-4 10*9 9-6 In Metropolitan District Asylums - 7-7 7-4 5-6 5-8 As Outdoor Paupers 9-1 71 5-3 4-3 Although there is, thus, evidence of the tendency for a growing proportion of the pauper insane to be received into Asylums, this has not proceeded to as marked an extent in the third as in the two preceding decades of this period. As compared with the numbers of last year, the increase of this class in County and Borough Asylums has been 2'3 per cent., or O’8 per cent, more than the increase for 1911. Those maintained in Registered Hospitals increased by 0‘8 per cent., whilst those in Licensed Houses increased by 10*1 per cent,, due, as was the case last year, entirely to the increase in the numbers boarded oat at Fisherton House, to which reference has already been made. In ordinary Workhouses they increased by 1'4 per cent., whilst in the Metropolitan District Asylums the numbers under care were practically unchanged. * The out-door paupers were only increased by 3, being less than 0 * 1 per cent. The rate of increase for the whole number of pauper patients was very slightly above that for private patients. The increase amongst the male sex was 1*8 per cent., as compared with a female increase of 2 1 per cent.—the relative percentage increases in the two sexes being the reverse of that obtaining in the previous year. The proportion of males to females (pauper) under care on 1st January 1913 was 464*9:535*1, which gives a much higher figure for the male sex than obtained amongst private patients. The criminal patients (males 903, females 280) numbered 1,183 on the 1st January 1913, or 46 more males and 12 more females than 12 months previously, the males having increased by 5*4 per cent, and the females by 4*5 per cent. Of the whole number, 249 or 21*0 per cent, were under care in County and Borough Asylums. We trust that now the second State Criminal Asylum at Rampton has been opened it will be found possible to relieve county authorities of the responsibility of finding accommodation for cases of this class.