Since the preceding remarks were written, Dr. Bucknill has favoured us with the Thirteenth Report of the Devon Asylum, in which he has discussed this same question and illustrated it by a special instance. To arrive at the actual cost of an adult sane pauper in a union-house, he gathered "the following particulars relative to the house of the St. Thomas Union in which this asylum is placed; a union, the population of which is 49,000, and which has the reputation of being one of the best managed in the kingdom. The cost of the maintenance of paupers in this union-house is 2_s._ 6_d._ per head, per week, namely, 2_s._ 2_d._ for food and 4_d._ for clothing. The establishment charges are 1_s._ 0-1/2_d._ per head, per week, making a total of 3_s._ 6-1/2_d._ for each inmate. The total number of pauper inmates during the twelfth week of the present quarter was 246; and of these 116 were infants and children, and 130 youths above sixteen and adults. A gentleman intimately acquainted with these accounts, some time since calculated for me that each adult pauper in the St. Thomas's Union-house cost 5_s._ a week. Now the average cost of all patients in the Devon Asylum at the present time is 7_s._ 7_d._, but of this at least 2_s._ must be set down to the extra wages, diet, and other expenses needful in the treatment of the sick, and of violent and acute cases, leaving the cost of the great body of chronic patients at not more than 5_s._ 7_d._ a week. Now if a sane adult pauper in a union-house costs even 4_s._ 6_d._ a week, is it probable that an insane one would cost less than 5_s._ 7_d._? For either extra cost must be incurred in his care, or he must disturb the discipline of the establishment, and every such disturbance is a source of expense." This quotation is really a reiteration of Dr. Bucknill's conclusions as advanced in 1857, in an excellent paper in the 'Asylum Journal' (vol. iv. p. 460), and as a pendent to it the following extract from this paper is appropriate; viz. "that the cost of a chronic lunatic properly cared for, and supplied with a good dietary, in a County Asylum, is not greater than that of a chronic lunatic supplied with a coarse and scanty dietary, and detained in neglect and wretchedness as the inmate of a union workhouse."