Chapter XXXI: Appendix: I

(Page 236.)

The Commissioners give, in their Report for 1857, a table in support of the statement at p. 236, but it is not borne out by the _average_ of the six largest and six smallest county asylums.

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| Daily average | Average weekly cost
Asylum. | number of patients. | per head.
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| | s. d.
Colney Hatch | 1257 | 9 10
Hanwell | 1020 | 10 5-3/4
Surrey | 934 | 8 8-3/4
Wakefield | 803 | 7 4
Lancaster | 710 | 8 1-1/2
Prestwich | 509 | 7 10
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| Average} 872 | Average} 8 8-1/2
| number} | cost }
| |
Dorset | 155 | 8 1
Denbigh | 189 | 9 8-3/4
Bucks | 192 | 10 8
Notts | 216 | 10 5
Cornwall | 238 | 8 3-3/4
Chester | 278 | 8 6
+---------------------+---------------------
| Average} 211 | Average} 9 3
| number} | cost}
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