| Description Of Item | From the collection of Richard Poole. Includes list of contents; statistical tables of the proportional numbers of patients in nine classes of medical condition in England, Ireland and Scotland, c1842; abstract of the census of Ireland, 1841; return of the number of insane in Irish workhouses, 1843; state of cases (curable, incurable etc) in Irish asylums, 1843; analysis of reports from the following asylums - Hanwell, St Luke's, Wakefield, Gloucester, Nottingham, York, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen, Belfast, Edinburgh, 1842-43 including tabular view of salaries and general view of expenses in Irish asylums; abridged abstract of returns as to number of pauper lunatics chargeable to parishes with average costs, 1842; ratio of insane as to populations in different counties, 1844; summary of queries as to asylum statistics; list of English County asylums; and general conclusions as to returns for England and Wales. |