LONDON'S 25,000 LUNATICS.

Lake County Press, Issue 2136, 20 September 1906, Page 7

LONDON'S 25,000 LUNATICS.

London's army of pauper lunatics is on the increase, and the mental experts connected with the medical superintendants of the various London asylums give as the reasons for this increase "drink and heredity."

This year there are nearly 25,000 lunatics under treatment in pauper asylums, an increase of over 8,000 ill fifteen years.

During the last year 3,814 new patients were admitted to the various institutions, and a table of the occupations of the patients shows how prevalent menial disorder is in the essentially working, classes, the underpaid, overworked submerged tenth of London.