On the State of Lunacy and the Legal Provision for the Insane

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS.

Chap. I.—Of the Number of the Insane.

Chap. II.—On the Increase of Insanity.

Chap. III.—state of the present provision for the insane in asylums.—its inadequacy.

Chap. IV.—on the curability of insanity.

Chap. V.—on the causes diminishing the curability of insanity, and involving the multiplication of chronic lunatics.

Chap. VI.—Causes diminishing the curability of insanity, and involving the multiplication of chronic lunatics.

Chap. VII.—on the future provision for the insane.

Chap. VIII.—Registration of Lunatics.

Chap. IX.—Appointment of District Medical Officers.

Chap. X.—On the Lunacy Commission.

Chap. XI.—On some Principles in the Construction of Public Lunatic Asylums.