Excerpt from The Australasian Medical Gazette, Vol. 1: Being the Official Organ of the Combined Australasian Branches of the British Medical Association; From October, 1881, to September, 1882 Some figures in the last reports of the English and Scotch Lunacy Commissioners would seem to point to this. The amount of insanity among the poorer classes has increased in much greater proportion than among the well-to-do classes of the community. In Scotland, after making allowance for the increased population of the country, the number of private asylums has, since 1858, increased 12 per cent., whilst the number in pauper asylums has increased 82 per cent. (report of Lunacy Commissioners, Scotland, Dr. George M. Beard, of New York, whilst discussing the aug mentation of the numbers of the insane, and the development of novel sym toms and forms of insanity, says, Insanity is a part of the cost 0 liberty, it is a tax on our freedom. Where the sane are Oppressed, the number of the insane has never been large. Liberty implies responsibility, responsibility leads to wrong, and wrong is attended with disappointment. If we think for ourselves and govern ourselves, thousands must go down in the struggle. 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.