Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles - Daniel Hack Tuke

The other public lunatic hospitals, nine [179] in number, were—

Locality.	Name of Asylum.	Date of opening.
Exeter	St. Thomas'	1801
Lincoln	Lunatic Asylum	1820
Liverpool	„ „	1792
Northampton	General Lunatic Asylum	1838
Norwich	Bethel Hospital	1713
Oxford (Headington)	Warneford Asylum	1826
York	Bootham Asylum	1777
„	The Retreat	1796

The total number of recognized lunatics on the 1st of January, 1844, were—

Private	4,072
Pauper	16,821
Total	20,893

They were thus distributed:—

General Statement of the Total Number of Persons ascertainedto be Insane in England and Wales, January 1, 1844.
Where confined.	Private patients.			Paupers.			Total.
Where confined.	M.	F.	Total.	M.	F.	Total.	M.	F.	Total.
15 county asylums	130	115	245	1,924	2,231	4,155	2,054	2,346	4,400
2 ditto under local acts	—	—	—	38	51	89	38	51	89
2 military and naval hospitals	164	4	168	—	—	—	164	4	168
2 Bethlem and St. Luke's Hospitals	178	264	442	86	35	121	264	299	563
9 other public asylums	249	287	536	177	166	343	426	453	879
Licensed houses—
37 metropolitan	520	453	973	360	494	854	880	947	1,827
99 provincial	748	678	1,426	947	973	1,920	1,695	1,651	3,346
Workhouses and elsewhere [180]	—	—	—	4,169	5,170	9,339	4,169	5,170	9,339
Single patients under commission	172	110	282	—	—	—	172	110	282
Total	2,161	1,911	4,072	7,701	9,120	16,801	9,682	11,031	20,893

The number of asylums amounted to 166.[181]

At this period there were thirty-three metropolitan licensed houses receiving private patients only, and four which received paupers also.

The dates of opening of these thirty-three private asylums, so far as known, were: three in the last century, to wit, in 1744, 1758, and 1759; one in each of the following years, 1802, 1811, 1814, 1816, 1823, 1825, 1826, 1829, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1836, 1837, 1840, 1842, and 1843; and two in 1830, 1831, 1838, and 1839.