OUR ASYLUMS.
[Bt Telegraph.] [PROM OUE OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON, Mat 17. The Inspector of Asylums, in his annual, report just presented to Parliament, states that at the end of the year 1884 there were 1452 persons of unsound mind detained in the various asylums. On Dec. 31,1885, the total had risen to 1523, an increase of 71 insane persons under care and treatment. The following figures will show that the above statement is a gratifying one when regard is had to the annual increase of the general population. The increase of insane under detention in the year 1882 was 106; year 1883, 93; year 1884, 77; and year 1885, 71; thus, whereas at the end of the year 1884, we had one lunatic to every 390 persons, the proportion had diminished at the close of last year to one in 401 of the population, which was estimated by the Registrar-General at 582,425. In England and Wales the ratio was, for the year 1885, one in 339.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXV, Issue 7863, 19 May 1886, Page 6
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