Materials for calculation unsatisfactory, 11.--Rate of accumulation of the insane in asylums, 12.--Estimate of increase made by the Commissioners, 12.--Table of number of lunatic paupers in workhouses, 13.--Calculation of their rate of increase, 14.--Increase of pauper lunatics not in workhouses or asylums, 14.--Total increase and accumulation of lunatics, 15.--Positive increase of insanity by new cases, 15.--Table of admissions in four years, 16.--Total number of new cases added yearly, 17.--Expenditure on account of the pauper insane, 18.--Proportion of the insane to the population, 18.--Cause of accumulation of the insane, 19.--Suggestions for obtaining improved statistics of pauper lunatics, 19. CHAP. III.--STATE OF THE PRESENT PROVISION FOR THE INSANE IN ASYLUMS.--ITS INADEQUACY. Commissioners' calculation of asylum accommodation wanted, 20.--Their conclusion that the present provision is inadequate, 22.--On the accuracy of the Commissioners' conclusions, 22.--Pauper lunatics accommodated in workhouses, and boarded out, 23.--Their unsatisfactory condition, 23.--Colony of insane at Gheel, in Belgium, 24.--Character of lunatics in workhouses, 25.--Unfit cases of insanity in workhouses, 25.--Commissioners' estimate that one-half of lunatic inmates of workhouses are improperly detained, 26.--Estimate of asylum accommodation required, 26. CHAP. IV.--ON THE CURABILITY OF INSANITY. Insanity a very curable disorder, 27.--Experience of American physicians, 27.--Exceptional circumstances in American asylums, 28.--Experience of St. Luke's Hospital, London, 28.--Experience of the Derby County Asylum, 30.--Advantages of early treatment, 30. CHAP. V.--ON THE CAUSES DIMINISHING THE CURABILITY OF INSANITY, AND INVOLVING THE MULTIPLICATION OF CHRONIC A. _Causes external to Asylums._ § _Detention of Patients in their own homes._ Absence of all curative influences at home, 32.--Causes of delay in submitting patients to treatment, 33.--Impediments to transmission to county asylums, 34.--Evils of pauper test in public asylums, 34.--Characters of Continental asylums, 35.--Practice followed in America, 36.--Scheme of assessment of means of those applying for admission to public asylums, 36.--Failure of the pauper test to protect the rate-payers, 37.--Its demoralizing and degrading effects, 38.--Suggestion as to conditions and mode of admission into county asylums, 38.--Act in force to recover the costs of maintenance objectionable and inefficient, 39. § _Detention of Patients in Workhouses._