HC Deb 05 March 1929 vol 226 c221W
Mr. DAY

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland the number of lunatics in county and borough asylums, hospitals, or licensed houses at the last convenient date?

Sir J. GILMOUR

The total number of lunatics in Scotland at 1st January, 1929, is as follows:

In Royal Asylums 3,616
In District Asylums 12,515
In Parochial Asylum 241
In Private Asylums 42
In Lunatic Wards of Poorhouses 880
17,294
Under care in private dwellings, including specially licensed houses 1,623
Total 18,917

There were in addition to the foregoing certified and registered lunatics, 909 patients in residence in the respective institutions at 1st January, 1929, on a voluntary basis, and there were also 73 inmates of the Criminal Lunatic Department of His Majesty's Prison at Perth.

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