The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-02-10 00:00:00

(2) TIM LUILLTIC ASTLUM.

Mr. flora presented the quarterly report :—" At
preadrob in Torsion, 191 ; at Fisherton, 71 • total num-
ber of paupers belonging to the county, 26ii."
Mr. ?toyer redid the annual report, from which
we learn that the increase last year was ... 6.
„ in 1861 .
(d 1960 . 16.
~ InlBsB .. ... 12.
showing no average annual i 1001,4110 of 9 three-liftbs."
(3) Cuter CONSTAPLIeII RZTORT.

"The acoompenying annual returns for the past
quarter I beg to lay before you. Preen them it senates
Am 263 permits have been taken into custody, being an
berates of 25 es compared with the eoompo.dl.g
quarter of last year, 85 have been discharged, 150 saga-
=wily disposed of. and 18 oommited tor trial."
From these three reports, all persons may, Sir, justly
draw the following palatal mnatisione :
(Prom let ileport.)—A large increase of PrhOper. ;
while, et auzli. the strummers a, naval prisemen),
have become better, the natives ham Mame Worms;
more punishments this year, with a lees day smogs.
Win last year (1861) with a greater average ; nlatr
more re-mentnitmente ; greater disberesinents, with
wheat much lower is price. Daddy lad wonderfully
meld the ratepayers have rejoiced. had the Pritono"
been but Las in number. But, fIrM "catch year bare„
ke." In noticing report 2, 1 would remind your
readers .(as was mentioned about • year ago be the
"temod chairman of Quarter glesaiont,. Lent Portman.)
tket the real population of Dorset from 1351 to Mt,
deaseso W about 4111. la 1551 dm' erste 141107 ;
sid te them ' SM 11,01111 eosin rodiftolf imiouniar Vol

Goverument works, lac., families ineloded), sea we •
have 199.19 ; but the Inhofe population in MI wee •
hut 188,789 ; and this clearly show,. decrease qf 418.
(It is Gm •11•1110 either way, but 1 eummond this to the •
notice of the Aeries-1w Jorrral.) But mark the con-
clusion —a very painful one: "Dorset is decreasing tie
niatlers, but ropidly 6/cruising Lin Mica." Let all
your readers observe that, for a anoint', in the years
immediately preceding the masts, Dorset increased la
the number of its lunatics 37.
Adis people, more lunatim ! Why. if in Middlesex,
which nines 16 baa incensed by 240,000, we beard al
the erection'of • new lunatic asylum we should net bia
earpreed ; nor yet in Surrey; but here is • county
(Dorset) which in • very few years will require both
Forston and the new A.yluin for its lunatics, seep
tLough the population be decreasing. I assure you,Bir,
that to • careful oisierver of theme things ouch conclu-
sionn are painful and alarming ; but all can be remedied
if the authoritiea in the county will but go to work is a
Jiicrent way. I tincerely ten 4 these remarks will be
permed by our estimable Lord. Lieutenant, the chair-
man in the Boum of Lords of the Commissariats of
Lunacy.
Andiron the third—the Chief Coastable's report—we
gather • very Large ineream of persons token into
custody (from 218 to 9635. This is alarming, being an
increase in one quarter of 11 per eras. Such is • faint
outline of the present awful state of things in Dorset.
You showed us • few months trio the. by • return
(wade for 1858-61) Hereford sad Dorset were the oily
counties of England and Wage that had e gees Number
,fi.rririft, but that Dorset was Tut WILT county
which, with las marriages, hof more illepitinests
children. What is lkis con* y coamkty Is un, Str,
I your obedient account, W.
Near Dorchester, Jan. 31, 1863.