-----------------------------------+----------+---------+---------- Location. | Private. | Pauper. | Total. -----------------------------------+----------+---------+---------- In county asylums, hospitals, and | | | licensed houses | 3,574 | 9,652 | 13,226 | | | Bethlem, and in naval and military | | | hospitals not subjected to | | | visitation of Commissioners | 606 | -- | 606 | | | Poor-law unions; placed under | | | local Acts | -- | 8,986 | 8,986 | | | Gilbert's unions, and other places | | | not in union | -- | 176 | 176 | | | Single patients found lunatic by | | | inquisition | 307 | | 307 | | | Ditto in private houses with | | | persons receiving profit | 130 | -- | 130 | | | Excess of pauper patients in | | | workhouses, etc., estimated by | | | visiting Commissioners as at | | | least one-third over the number | | | number returned by parish | | | officers | -- | 3,053 | 3,053 | | | Criminals in jails | -- | 32 | 32 +----------+---------+---------- Total | 4,617 | 21,899 | 26,516 -----------------------------------+----------+---------+----------
The number of patients found lunatic by inquisition was 542; their incomes amounting to £280,000. In 1839 the corresponding numbers were 494 and £277,991.
The estimated annual amount expended at this time for maintenance of lunatics, or administered on their behalf, exceeded £750,000, thus distributed:
1. Cost of 9652 paupers in asylums, estimated at 8s. per week £200,762
2. Ditto of 8986 paupers in workhouses, etc., and 173 in parishes not in union (9159), estimated at 3s. per week 71,440
3. Ditto of excess of 3053 paupers over the number returned by the parish officer 23,813
4. Ditto of 3574 private patients in asylums, etc., at an average of 20s. per week 173,628
5. Income of 542 private patients found lunatic by inquisition 280,000
6. Cost of 606 patients in Bethlem and the naval and military hospitals, estimated at 10s. per week 50,756
7. Ditto of 120 other single patients taken charge of in separate houses at £100 a year 12,000
8. Thirty-two criminals in jails, estimated at 3s. per week 249 -------- Total £777,648
Adding the expense of maintaining many families cast upon the parish in consequence of the patient's insanity, and the expense of supporting many called imbecile, and the interest of large sums invested in public establishments, the Commissioners estimated the actual amount as little less than £1,000,000.
