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Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles

Note 156 — Chapter IV · COURSE OF LUNACY LEGISLATION.

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The cost of some of the asylums mentioned is worth noting:—Bedford, with 180 beds, £20,500; Cornwall, with 172, £18,780; Gloucester, with 120, £42,856; Lancaster, for 593, £100,695; Stafford, for 120, £36,500; Nottingham, for 170, £36,800; Norfolk, for 220, £50,000; Wakefield, for 420, £46,620. (Except Cornwall, land is included.)

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