Official returns imperfect, 3.--Divergence of returns of Lunacy Commissioners and of Poor-Law Board, 4.--Unreported 'private' lunatics, 5.--Criminal lunatics in prisons, 6.--Inadequate estimate of the number of the Insane, 7.--Illustration of the difficulty of discovering the true statistics of Lunacy, 7.--Number of pauper lunatics in workhouses, 9.--Paupers not enumerated in official returns, 9.--Estimate of the total number of the insane on 1st of January 1859, 10.--Causes of apparent increase, 10.
Materials for calculation unsatisfactory, 11.--Rate of accumulation of the insane in asylums, 12.--Estimate of increase made by the Commissioners, 12.--Table of number of lunatic paupers in workhouses, 13.--Calculation of their rate of increase, 14.--Increase of pauper lunatics not in workhouses or asylums, 14.--Total increase and accumulation of lunatics, 15.--Positive increase of insanity by new cases, 15.--Table of admissions in four years, 16.--Total number of new cases added yearly, 17.--Expenditure on account of the pauper insane, 18.--Proportion of the insane to the population, 18.--Cause of accumulation of the insane, 19.--Suggestions for obtaining improved statistics of pauper lunatics, 19.
CHAP. III.--STATE OF THE PRESENT PROVISION FOR THE INSANE IN ASYLUMS.--ITS INADEQUACY.
Commissioners' calculation of asylum accommodation wanted, 20.--Their conclusion that the present provision is inadequate, 22.--On the accuracy of the Commissioners' conclusions, 22.--Pauper lunatics accommodated in workhouses, and boarded out, 23.--Their unsatisfactory condition, 23.--Colony of insane at Gheel, in Belgium, 24.--Character of lunatics in workhouses, 25.--Unfit cases of insanity in workhouses, 25.--Commissioners' estimate that one-half of lunatic inmates of workhouses are improperly detained, 26.--Estimate of asylum accommodation required, 26.
CHAP. IV.--ON THE CURABILITY OF INSANITY.
Insanity a very curable disorder, 27.--Experience of American physicians, 27.--Exceptional circumstances in American asylums, 28.--Experience of St. Luke's Hospital, London, 28.--Experience of the Derby County Asylum, 30.--Advantages of early treatment, 30.
CHAP. V.--ON THE CAUSES DIMINISHING THE CURABILITY OF INSANITY, AND INVOLVING THE MULTIPLICATION OF CHRONIC