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| and showing also the number of days each Inuna-- { magistrates and count {udgci having power to | | tic wasgletained in the gaol. _ The number of | send them there. 0(',' those persons who were { buildings now under construction for the accom-- | con'ined in the gaols as Ilunatics, a re.rcentage modation of the insane. 'The number they are ) were of that class who -- should not be expected to accommodate, and when the build-- | admitted to the asylums, who should be attend. ings will be ready for use. Hepointed outthat f ed at home, or by the local authorities, according to the last report of the inspectors | Then there were 326 applicants, making in all the number of lunatics in the asylums at _Lon. 5 424 persons said to be of unsound mind and !F don, Hamilton, Toronto and Qrillia was 3,384, | outside of the walls of the asylumss Now, as | the number of applications on hand at date ) to the provision which was being made, The {C was 241, and thenumber of lunatics confined } new building at Hamilton wonuld accommodate in the county gaols was 116. Me thought that [ 150--that is to say, the portion which was to these circumstances.showed that the Govern-- . be proceeded with at once, for when the build-- xa ment was not doing its duty towards the in-- B ing was complete it would accommodate 300. | sane. The continement of insane persons in | Provision. was being made in the Orillia asy. | _ gaols during the carly stages of the discase was »lum for 200 patients, so that in a year and a lfl inadvisable, because it was known that it was i half they would have accommodation for about | -- _ in the early stages of insanity that treatment 500 more, A good dGeal had been said about was most likely to effect a cure. 'The exten-- THUE JIXCREASE OF INSAXITY, sion of the accommodation by means of cot-- ; but there was misapprehension on this point. | tages surrounded by farms would furnish ad-- J jusanity had perhaps increased too rapidly, | ditional accommodation and also provide em-- | but in a great measure the appearance of an . ployment for those persous of unsound mind | increase was due to this, that as fast as the who were able to work, accoinmodation was increased the previonsly || \_ Hon. A. ®. HARDY said that no Province l} existing demand for accommodation became had been so abreast of the times as Ontario in $ knowin. Probably there was a tendency on the \ caring for the insame, and yet it was perhaps £ part of examining physicians and magistrates | | true that they had not found accommodation | to accelerate or factiitate the introduction of | | for all, persons into the asyluims, and so it happened / ' TNE GREAT DIFFMICCLTY (| that people were admitted merely to give relief | had been, and probably would be, that there to their familics. Dr. Foster Pratt, a| 'hmi beou admitted to the asylums a large » well--known alien'st had made a ealeulation of }« number of the chronic and harmless insane, the smouut of insanity in various countries. ; | who probably should have been confined In the Northern States he stated the propor-- | in the _ localities _ where they PESEUOL] | on armumermrmramiplie srmmmnepntenrenrsmeren's o ty % © | in _ the -- houses of _ refuge, -- poorhouses, tion to be 1 to 597, in the southern States 1 to | and industrial farms. In the Northern States -- 660, in the Territories 1 to 748. 'These figures . l every district or county had at least some asc--~ id not show that insanity was most prevalent commodation beside the gao!ls, in Ontario in the northern States and least prevalent in thore.\\'crc such xllsgltl!tlozls in ouly a few | the Territories. They were s'nn']\}y a result of counties, and most of these persons, though the well--known fact that in the Tervritories the harmless and necding only that care which nccommodation for the insane was the least, in but for porerty could be given at home, found the Northern States it was the greatest ; refuge in the asylums, They were usually , there were not more insane people there, but i 3""'"'-' l"'_'g h'"fl'.""'l they occcupied that Poorn | MORE INSANE PEOPLE ACCOMMODATED ' in the asylum which should be given to cases | 50 t oi 9 G h ' of a different kind. _ He did not know whether | it Ppublic institutions,. in Ontario the per-- they would be able to revolutionise this state| centage could not be assumed at less than of things. _ Probably the measure of what On.| 1 to 600. On a population of 2,100,000 this tario could do, keeping in view the question of | would give 3,500, leaving about 600 to be expense, would be the erection of a large asy.| provided for, there beu'lg in the. asylums in 1886 lum, into which could be drafted say 1,000 of | 2,899 persons, Dr. Clark estimated the nuin-- these cases of ber of insane in Ontario at 3,200, which would . eHROXIO, HABMLESS INSAXITY. give 1 in 656, a proportion considerably less An institution of this kind would probably re-- than in the northern States. '1"he chronic and | quire fewer guards and less medical attend. | iD@UrAble cases in the Ontario asylum were -- ance than an ordinary lnnatic asylum, Another | 4¢¢UiPulating at the rate of 60 per cent. of the plan would be to use one of the old asylums for : Admissions. .\5r'1cty-tu'e per cent. of the in-- _ this purpose, and to allow any new accommo. !M8tes of the Toronto Asylum were of thi dation to take the modern form of cottages. C388 _ . There were no persons of unsound mind con-- ; ,, Mr-- WILEY, who was heard indistinetly in , fined in gaols, and there were others on whose ' t!w reporters' gallery, was understood to men-- behalf applications had been made, and there tion one or two cases in his own experience, in was no doubt disappointment on account of , Which there had been great delay in adimitting the lack of accommodation. On March 1st , to the asylums patients who could not§ pay 1 last there were in the four asylums of Ontario _ their way, _ Though doubtless there was a 2.879 persous, or including those confined in ° &reat temptation to admit those who coun!d pay t the Asylam for Idiots at Orillia, 3,190, Where the choice was given, he thought the There was room in all for 28 more persons. . Government should see to it that these ?lelnys. C There were at the same date in the gaols, 98 NS far as possible, were avoided. This should . persons of unsound mind. _ 1t was an unfor®t : bo done, especially "in view of the number of f tunate thing that for persons taken sucldenl; unfortunates who were in gaol on charges of * with insanity there was no resource but the 'l@4vacy. Instead of sending the chronic patients 1 ' gaols. But this state of things would probably to ssylums, this class should be sent to an in-- always exist, for therefwould always he violent , Stitution to be established where they conld be lunatics, persons of murderous or suicidal ten. , @Mployed in farming operations. _ Room could dencies, who required instant confinement, and I thus always be found for the acute cases. you could not have an asylum in 'every locality, < . Mr. MEACHAM quoted an American author-- In many cases the gaols, though of course not ' 4t¥ that in five States, including idiots, there the bost places for lunatics, were better than | W4s One of unsound 'mind to three hundred of the homes from which they came. Confining . the population. | In nine cases of which he had an insane person in a gaol was one way of Néard four of those who were sent to the E opening the doors of the asylum to them, the | &S¥luim _ at _ _ onee _ on _ their _ diseased ' | mental state being discovered, were now