INSANITY.
RAPID INCREASE IN ENGLAND. By Telegraph—Press Association—OopyTiffM. London; October 28. Dr. Forbes Winslow, founder of the British Hospital for Mental Diseases, London, and .a well-known expert on mental diseases, says that lunacy is increasing at an enormous rate. In 1859 there was one lunatic to 536 persons; now tlio number is one in 277, .
There were known to be under car®,in England and Wales 128,787 persons certified as insane on January 1, 1909 —number which exceeds,by 2703 that recorded on January 1, 1908—namely, 126,081. • This increase ■ for 1908 may be contrasted with that of 2096 for 1907, .or 2009 for 1906, and 2150 ' for 1905.- The average annual increase for the ten years ending December 31,-1908. was 2370; and that for, the five years cnaing on the same date, 2317. ■ ~X On January 1, 1859, the total number of the certified insane uhdor care in England and Wales was 36,762; and on Jauuary 1,-1909, it was 128,787. Thus Ln the space of fifty years .the'number of insane persons known to the authorities has increased by 250 per cent, which, of course, by no means necessarily indicates an actual increase of "insanity to that extent. 'In the same period the general population (estimated) has increased at the rate of 81.6 per cent.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 961, 31 October 1910, Page 7
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