-----------------------------------------+-----+-----+------ Location. | M. | F. |Total. -----------------------------------------+-----+-----+------ County and borough asylums | 22 | 10 | 32 Registered hospitals | 102 | 66 | 168 Metropolitan licensed houses | 123 | 119 | 242 Provincial „ „ | 104 | 82 | 186 Naval and military and East India Asylums| 2 | -- | 2 Criminal asylums | 3 | -- | 3 Private single patients | 55 | 80 | 135 +-----+-----+------ | 411 | 357 | 768 Residing in charge of their committees | -- | -- | 224 | | +------ Total | | | 992 -----------------------------------------+-----+-----+------ The percentages on the incomes of Chancery lunatics amounts to about £22,000, an amount which goes far to cover the cost, not only of the Masters and Registrar, but also the Visitors; viz. Masters in Lunacy, £12,805; Registrar, £2,216; Visitors, £8,317; total, £23,339.[223] FOOTNOTES: [213] Free use has been made of Shelford's "Law concerning Lunatics, etc.," and Elmer's "Practice in Lunacy," 1877. [214] "Rex habet custodiam terrarum fatuorum naturalium, capiendo exitus earundem sine vasto et destructione et inveniet eis necessaria sua de cujus cumque fœdo terre ille fuerint; et post mortem eorum reddat eas (eam) rectis hæredibus ita quod nullatenus per eosdem fatuos alienentur vel (nec quod) eorum hæredes exheredentur." [215] "Item habet providere (Rex providebit) quando aliquis qui prius habuit (habuerit) memoriam et intellectum non fuerit compos mentis suæ, sicut quidam sunt per lucida intervalla quod terre et tenementa eorumdem (ejusdem) salvo custodiantur sine vasto et destructione, et quod ipse et familia sua de exitibus eorundem vivant et sustineantur competenter; et residuum ultra sustentationem eorundem rationabilem custodiatur ad opus ipsorum liberandum eis (eisdem) quando memoriam recuperaverint. Ita quod predicte terre et tenementa infra prædictum tempus non nullatemus alienentur nec Rex de exitibus aliquid percipiat ad opus suum; et si obievit in tale statu tunc illud residuum distribuatur pro animâ per consilium ordinariorum (ordinarii)" (see Shelford, p. 624). [216] Blackstone, vol. i. p. 304 (edit. 1783). [217] "Fatuus et idiota existit, ita quod regimini sui ipsius terrarum, tenementorum, bonorum, et catallorum suorum non sufficit." "Si A. fatuus et idiota sit, sicut prædictum est, necne; et si sit, tunc utrum a nativitate suâ, aut ab alio tempore; et si ab alio tempore, tunc a quo tempore; qualiter et quomodo; et si lucidis gaudeat intervallis ... et quis propinquoir hæres ejus sit, et cujus ætatis."