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.