The above Statute, passed in 1866 to amend the Acts relating to lunacy, was succeeded, in a few years, by another statute having reference to a special class of the insane. Of this later Act in 1871 (34 and 35 Vict., c. 55) to amend the laws relating to criminal and dangerous lunatics in Scotland, it may be well to record the most important provisions. These were to apply to persons detained by judgment prior to the Act 20 and 21 Vict., c. 71. The lunatic department in the general prison at Perth was to be relieved from overcrowding by removing the insane prisoners to district, chartered, or private licensed asylums, with consent of managers of chartered and private asylums. As to the disposal of persons becoming insane in local prisons, these were to be removed to a lunatic asylum by a warrant of the sheriff; all asylums in which pauper lunatics were maintained by contract being bound to provide for the reception of such prisoner. The Act was to apply to any lunatic charged with assault or any offence, although not coming within the definition of a pauper. There was in 1874 an interesting Parliamentary return, showing the total number of pauper lunatics in each of the three divisions of the United Kingdom, and the estimated annual amount of the proposed grant of four shillings per head per week towards the maintenance of pauper lunatics in asylums. The figures are as follows:-- A. In county, borough, royal, district, parochial, and private licensed asylums-- England 31,799 Ireland 7,140 Scotland 4,428 ------ Total 43,367 B. In work houses and elsewhere-- England 21,413 Ireland 3,125 Scotland 2,077 ------ Total 26,615 Total of A and B in England 53,212 „ Ireland 10,265 „ Scotland 6,505 ------ Total 69,982 Annual amount of four shillings weekly capitation grant towards maintenance of those in A: England £330,710[245] Ireland 74,256 Scotland 46,051 -------- £451,071 The proportion per cent. of patients in A on the total number of pauper lunatics is, for-- England 60 per cent. Ireland 70 „ Scotland 68 „ Of the 6505 Scotch pauper lunatics, there were--