The 4642 paupers were thus distributed: In chartered asylums, 1511; licensed houses, 426; poor-houses, 667; reported houses, 31; school for idiots, 3; unlicensed houses, 6; with relatives, 1217; with strangers, 640; not under any care, 141; total, 4642.
The receptacles for the insane were thus distributed:—
A. Chartered asylums. The Royal Asylums at Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Montrose; the Crichton Institution, Dumfries, including the Southern Counties Asylum; James Murray's Royal Asylum, Perth.
B. Public asylums not incorporated. The only institution of the kind, that of Elgin, was exclusively for paupers.
C. Poor-houses with separate wards for the insane (twelve given in the table).
D. Prisons. The only one specially adapted for the reception of the insane was the lunatic department of the general prison at Perth.
E. Poor-houses without separate wards for the insane (fourteen given).
F. Private asylums (twenty-three in number).
G. Private houses reported to the sheriff.