In public asylums 1930 In district asylums 1763 In private asylums 77 In parochial asylums 746 In lunatic wards of poor-houses 557 ---- 5073 In private dwellings under sanction of the Board, viz.-- With relatives 875} With strangers 529} 1432 Alone 28} ---- 6505 A return was also made of the average weekly cost of each lunatic at that time-- s. d. In public asylums 9 2¼ In district asylums 9 9½ In private asylums 11 1 In parochial asylums 8 4¼ In lunatic wards of poor-houses 6 8½ -------- Total in establishments 9 0½ With relatives 4 0 With strangers 5 6 Alone 3 5½ -------- Total in private dwellings 4 3¾ There should be added to the above an expenditure for all pauper lunatics of threepence a head per week, being the cost of certificates of lunacy, expenses of transport, etc. Twenty-one years after the appointment of the Lunacy Commissioners, their Report of 1878 enables us to mark the progress which had been made during this period in the accommodation afforded for the insane in Scotland. The labours of the Commissioners had been followed by highly satisfactory results, and it would be difficult to speak too highly of the value of their Reports during these twenty years. On January 1, 1878, 1569 patients were maintained from private sources, 7473 by parochial rates, and 55 at the expense of the State. Twenty years before, the distribution of the insane was as follows. In a parallel column is seen a like return for 1878.