January last tend to show that such results are not unlikely to accompany the working of this new financial arrangement."[204] The Irish inspectors in their report for 1875 calculate that the maximum number who could properly be transferred from asylums to workhouses is seven or eight per cent., and they make the observation, which no doubt is very just, that many patients who are quiet and demeanable under trained nurses in an asylum would become intractable elsewhere. As we have now reached another decade, it will be well to afford the reader the opportunity of comparing the population of asylums, and workhouses, with that which we have given in 1844, 1854, and 1864. GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PERSONS ASCERTAINED TO BE INSANE IN ENGLAND AND WALES, JANUARY 1, 1874. ----------------+------------------+--------------------+-------------------- Where | Private | Paupers. | Total. confined.[205]| patients. | | +-----+-----+------+------+------+------+------+------+------ | M. | F. |Total.| M. | F. |Total.| M. | F. |Total. ----------------+-----+-----+------+------+------+------+------+------+------ 31 county and | | | | | | | | | borough asylums| 194| 221| 415|14,238|16,718|30,956|14,432|16,939|31,371 | | | | | | | | | 3 military and | | | | | | | | | naval | | | | | | | | | hospitals, and | | | | | | | | | Royal India | | | | | | | | | Asylum | 342| 16| 358| -- | -- | -- | 342| 16| 358 | | | | | | | | | 2 Bethlem and | | | | | | | | | St. Luke's | | | | | | | | | Hospitals | 167| 268| 435| -- | -- | -- | 167| 268| 435 | | | | | | | | | 13 other public | | | | | | | | | public asylums |1,107| 891| 1,998| 174| 165| 339| 1,281| 1,056| 2,337 | | | | | | | | | Licensed houses:| | | | | | | | | 39 metropolitan|1,006| 787| 1,793| 257| 614| 871| 1,263| 1,401| 2,664 67 provincial | 772| 754| 1,526| 200| 323| 523| 972| 1,077| 2,049 | | | | | | | | | 1 Broadmoor | 267| 64| 331| 148| 41| 189| 415| 105| 520 | | | | | | | | | Private single | | | | | | | | |