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The Alleged Increase of Lunacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

C. Lockhart Robertson
C. Lockhart Robertson*
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Ex-President of the Medico-Psychological Association
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“We have not found any reasons supporting the opinion generally entertained that the community are more subject than formerly to attacks of Insanity.”— Fifteenth Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor, 1861.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 15 , Issue 69 , April 1869 , pp. 1 - 17
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1869 

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(Read at the Second Quarterly Meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association, held at the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society, January 28th, 1869.)Google Scholar

∗ Compare also two papers in the Journal de la Société de Statistique de Paris for 1866. De la Folie en France.Google Scholar

∗ In illustration of this assertion I would refer to the numerous facts detailed in the Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor, 1844. Those who have not access to this report may consult the speech on the Regulation of Lunatic Asylums, delivered by Lord Ashley, in the House of Commons, June 6th, 1845, and which is reprinted in a volume recently published, “Speeches of the Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G., upon subjects having relation chiefly to the claims and interests of the labouring classes, with a Preface.” London : Chapman and Hall, 1868. (For a notice of this volume, see Journal of Mental Science, January, 1869. Part IV., Psychological News, “Lord Shaftesbury's Speeches.”) Google Scholar

∗ See note at the end of this paper—”Note on the relations of Pauper Lunacy to the Population.”Google Scholar

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