------------------+--------------------------+----------------- County. | Town. | Date of opening. ------------------+--------------------------+----------------- Beds | Bedford | 1812 Chester | Chester | 1829 Cornwall | Bodmin | 1820 Dorset | Forston, near Dorchester | 1832 Gloucester | Gloucester | 1823 Kent | Barming Heath, Maidstone | 1833 Lancaster | Lancaster Moor | 1816 Leicester | Leicester | 1837 Middlesex | Hanwell | 1831 Norfolk | Thorpe, near Norwich | 1814 Nottingham | Nottingham | 1812 Stafford | Stafford | 1818 Suffolk | Melton, near Woodbridge | 1829 Surrey | Springfield, Wandsworth | 1841 York, West Riding | Wakefield | 1818 ------------------+--------------------------+------------------ There were two asylums in operation at this date, which were declared by local Acts county asylums, subject to the provisions of 9 Geo. IV., c. 40, viz. St. Peter's Hospital, Bristol, incorporated in the year 1696; and one at Haverfordwest, county of Pembroke, 1824. The military and naval hospitals were two in number, viz.-- -------------------------+-----------+-------------------- Hospital. | Nature. | Date of opening. -------------------------+-----------+-------------------- Fort Clarence, Chatham | Military | 1819 Haslar Hospital, Gosport | Naval | 1818 -------------------------+-----------+-------------------- Then there were the old hospitals of Bethlem and St. Luke's--the former more specially devoted to the insane in 1547, removed from Bishopsgate Street to Moorfields in 1676, and opened in St. George's Fields in 1815; the latter opened July 30, 1751. The other public lunatic hospitals, nine[179] in number, were-- --------------------+------------------------+------------------ Locality. | Name of Asylum. | Date of opening. --------------------+------------------------+------------------ Exeter | St. Thomas' | 1801 Lincoln | Lunatic Asylum | 1820 Liverpool | „ „ | 1792 Northampton | General Lunatic Asylum | 1838 Norwich | Bethel Hospital | 1713 Oxford (Headington) | Warneford Asylum | 1826 York | Bootham Asylum | 1777 „ | The Retreat | 1796 --------------------+------------------------+------------------ The total number of recognized lunatics on the 1st of January, 1844, were--