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Contribution to the statistics of insanity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Arthur Mitchell
Arthur Mitchell*
Affiliation:
Commissioner in Lunacy for Scotland
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1. In this inquiry all the asylums of Scotland are regarded as one asylum, and the different institutions merely as different wards of the asylum. A patient transferred from one institution to another is thus regarded as never leaving the asylum, but merely as passing from one ward to another. The words—the asylum—therefore, in this paper, mean an asylum made up of all the asylums of Scotland.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 22 , Issue 100 , January 1877 , pp. 507 - 515
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1877 

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Notes

1. From what became known to me while making this inquiry, and from knowledge otherwise acquired, I think we may safely assume that what was found to be true of the 411 would have been found to be substantially true also of the 201, had we succeeded in getting the information regarding them which vas desired. On this assumption, we should have the whole 612 thus accounted for:Google Scholar

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