Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor
Subtitle: presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty
By: [by the Earl of Shaftesbury]
Contributors: Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1801-1885
Publisher: Bradbury and Evans
Published: 1844
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Notes: Includes extensive statistical material.

For Shaftesbury's participation see DNB IV, 1059.

First edition, Hunter & Macalpine, p. 923 f. "This first Report ... presents us with a full exposition of the state of lunacy in England and Wales ... not merely a report on asylums but an inverted pyramid the apex of which was asylum inspection and the base of which a survey of the practice of psychiatry among all classes and institutions ..."

Includes index.