Insanity Increasing.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 181, 4 August 1904, Page 4

Insanity Increasing.

The General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland have issued their forty-sixth annual report, which states that at Ist January, 11)04, there were in Scotland 10,894 nsane persons of whom the Commissioners had official notice, in"dudiiig the inmates of training ichools for imbecile children and of bee Lunatic Department of the General Prison at Perth. Of these 2582 .yore maiintained from private .sources, 14,309 by parochial rates, and 53 at the expense of the State. As the j iotnl number at Ist January, 1908, v.as l(>,fi.")B, am increase has taken .lace during the past year of 236. Since 1858 the number of lunatics :nder the jurisdiction of the Board has increased 190 per cent. The increase of the population during the lame period has been 52 per cent. I'he number of patients in private asylums has increased during It.e past year by 111, and in private dwellings decreased by two, un increase of 109 in all. The most prominent contributor to Ihe increase is the county of Edinburgh with 48, or 27 per cent, of the whole. On the other hand, the largest contributor to the total increase is the mainly urban county of l-'orfar, with a growing population which shows 21 fewer than- last year. —Weekly Scotsman.