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    214 OPEN COUNCIL.

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    To The Editor Of The English Woman's Jou...

    private single patients , was 5 , 748 ; of these 3 , 030 were women , thus distributed :. — 1154

    In In In Private Public Poor-houses Asy Asy lums lums , „ ... ... , 487 415

    In Private Houses 974 3 , 030

    At the moment , I am unable to give the returns for Ireland . With respect to France iny information is but limited . The order ent de of Paul " Les

    devote Sceurs Hosp their italieres attention , " a to division the insane I believe in general of that , while of " St " . Les Vinc Freres de St , " . Jea" do the same for their own sexFrom " Les Annales d'Hiene

    Pubn . yg li obtained que" comprehensive and bdirection summaries of the of the Bureau state of of General lunacy in Statistics France may official be returns are ; annuall y y made . That for 1853 is before me . We find , that at these

    that date there existed in France 111 lunatic establishments—of sixtywere five were ancient public reli , g and ious forty Houses -six , or private Foundations . Of the , or pub Hosp lic ices Asy , or lum Quartiers s twenty- ties six to femalesthe

    number maining Hospices of ei , g eleven the hty- insane three being , asy according lums devoted to both to to the male sexes official s , . seventeen On return January , amounted 1 , 1853 to , , the 23 , total 7 re 95 - .

    above But deprived by 45 the 000 of census reason insane were of that 1851 living is it 1 was in in private ascertained 796 houses inhabitants that , which above . would 24 , 000 give individuals a total of ,, , every distributed

    The In In 23 , the the 795 Asy Quartiers recognised lums of des lunatics the Hosp State ices of both sexes were thus 10 7 , , 223 839 : —

    In Private Asylums 5 , 733 23 , 795

    Taking the average of 1000 admissions , 533 were males , 467 females ; of 1000 cured or discharged , 535 were males , 465 females ; and of 1000 deaths that , 541 in

    were males , 409 females . Consequently , from this we gather age France for admissio men are n somewhat in this return more is liable stated to to insanity be forty than years women ; but . from The fift mean y to

    cases sixty , of women either sex appear at the to period be more named frequentl , the y relative attacked proportion than men would . In be 1000 134 males to 167 females .

    moment The latter . The part attention of Z . ' of s letter the Select is particularl Committee y suggestive of the House at of the Commons present urgent on Lunatics necessity , in of 1859 procuring , was speciall a superior y directed order b of y attendants Lord Shaftesbury on the insane to the .

    verbatim Were I not . Suffice fearful it of to encroaching say , that it on is supported your space by I would facts , and copy is the as strong evidence as words can make itThe present momentwhen prejudice on so many vital

    . , to yet want be controverted particularl at least as y regards points favorable is female y to ielding the attendants development to the dictates might of be of some supp common lied plan . sense whereb A portion , appears y this of

    the Ni , ghtingale Fund is now devoted to the , training of nurses to the sick in respect Say the wards a training to the of St - insan school . Thomas e , at divided Hanwell 's Hosp into ital , or two . any Could classes other not , for of a our similar the great edu p c lan ated _jDtiblic be and pursued asy unedu lums in ? -

    by cated ofcher a . thoroug , to The give one h to practical to women receive tr in aining gentlewomen a humbler to become sp b here y birth superi the , ntendents who opportu desire nity of to of asy fit dul themselves lums y quali ; the - scheme like this

    fying themselves as attendants on the insane . To start a ,

    214 Open Council.

    214 OPEN COUNCIL .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 214, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/70/