Twenty years after the census of the insane made in 1844, and ten after the period to which the table given at p. 230 refers, we find the numbers as follow[192]:-- GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PERSONS ASCERTAINED TO BE INSANE IN ENGLAND AND WALES, JANUARY 1, 1864. ----------------+------------------+--------------------+-------------------- Where | Private | Paupers. | Total. confined. | patients. | | +-----+-----+------+------+------+------+------+------+------ | M. | F. |Total.| M. | F. |Total.| M. | F. |Total. ----------------+-----+-----+------+------+------+------+------+------+------ 42 county and | | | | | | | | | borough asylums| 118| 113| 231| 9,690|11,630|21,320| 9,808|11,743|21,551 | | | | | | | | | 1 military and | | | | | | | | | naval hospital | 153| -- | 153| -- | -- | -- | 153| -- | 153 | | | | | | | | | 2 Bethlem and | | | | | | | | | St. Luke's | | | | | | | | | Hospitals | 264| 215| 479| -- | -- | -- | 264| 215| 479 | | | | | | | | | 13 other public | | | | | | | | | asylums | 708| 591| 1,299| 170| 178| 348| 878| 769| 1,647 | | | | | | | | | Licensed houses:| | | | | | | | | 37 metropolitan| 831| 649| 1,480| 253| 589| 842| 1,084| 1,238| 2,322 65 provincial | 987| 698| 1,685| 256| 192| 448| 1,243| 890| 2,133 | | | | | | | | | Workhouses and | | | | | | | | | elsewhere | -- | -- | -- | 8,125| 8,126|16,251| 8,125| 8,126|16,251 | | | | | | | | | Broadmoor | -- | -- | -- | -- | 95| 95| -- | 95| 95 +-----+-----+------+------+------+------+------+------+------ Total[193] |3,061|2,226| 5,327|18,494|20,810|39,304|22,555|23,076|44,631 ----------------+-----+-----+------+------+------+------+------+------+------ We must not pass by the year 1867 without recording that at this period a statute important in its bearing on the provision made for the insane poor of London was enacted. This was the Metropolitan Poor Act, which established what are known as the Metropolitan District Asylums for Imbeciles at Leavesden (Hertfordshire), Caterham (Surrey), Hampstead, and Clapton. Legally these institutions are classed under workhouses.