Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thirtieth Annual Report of the Inspector of Prisons and Public Charities Upon the Lunatic and Idiot Asylums of the Province of Ontario: Being for the Year Ending 30th September, 1897 AS the increases or decreases, as shown in tabulated form, are, no doubt, the surest means of estimating the progress and determining the present position off the work in caring for the insane, the first point of interest in this regard is the comparative increase of admissions for the year ending 3oth September last. The number admitted during the previous year ending September-30th, 1896 was 763, whereas, for the year under report there has been 905 admitted, or an increase of 142. For the past five years the admissions have averaged 793, or 112 per annum less than the'year just closed In two years, however, during the past decade the admissions have exceeded those of the past year, namely. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.