patients | 168| 268| 436| -- | -- | -- | 168| 268| 436 | | | | | | | | | Workhouses: }| | | | | | | | | Males, 6372; }| | | | | | | | | females, 8646;}| | | | | | | | | total, 15,018 }| | | | | | | | | Elsewhere: }| -- | -- | -- | 9,084|12,773|21,857| 9,084|12,773|21,857 Males, 2712; }| | | | | | | | | females, 4127;}| | | | | | | | | total; 6839 }| | | | | | | | | +-----+-----+------+------+------+------+------+------+------ Total[206] |4,023|3,269| 7,292|24,101|30,634|54,735|28,124|33,903|62,027 ----------------+-----+-----+------+------+------+------+------+------+------ Referring to the numbers of the insane in 1875, the Commissioners observe that they have increased beyond the growth of the population. This had been mainly among paupers, there having been 16.14 of this class in 1849, and 23.55 in 1875, per 10,000 of the population; while of private patients the advance had only been from 2.53 to 3.09 during the same period. The population increased from 1849 to 1875, 22.63 per cent. Private patients increased 48.39 per cent., and pauper patients 77.47 per cent. In regard to the treatment of the insane in Wales, it may be stated that until the Denbigh Asylum was opened in November, 1847, there was no institution for the reception of lunatics, except the small asylum at Haverfordwest, and a house licensed in 1843 for private and pauper patients in Glamorganshire.[207] Most of the paupers were kept in their homes or workhouses; others sent to asylums. Before the Act was passed making it compulsory on the counties to provide accommodation, several philanthropic gentlemen, impressed with the desirability of having an institution for private patients in North Wales, and where all the officers should possess a knowledge of Welsh, which language alone the vast majority of the inhabitants knew at that time, collected about £8000. By this time the Act was passed, and the subscribers made over their money to the counties, on condition that twenty-six separate beds should be kept for private patients--several of themselves to be members of the Committee. The private apartments form part of the same building, but the inmates do not associate with the paupers. The total accommodation was two hundred, and there was a great outcry at the building of such a large place. About fifteen years ago, two wings were added, each to hold one hundred beds, and last year an additional one of one hundred and thirty beds.