Lunacy in Scotland
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The Eighteenth Annual Report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland, addressed to the Right Honourable Richard A. Cross, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, has been duly presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, and thereafter published for the information of anyone interested in the management and disposal of the insane. It is, however, probably only by those to whom this Report was originally presented, or by persons accustomed to the perusal of Parliamentary returns, that this document, with the elaborate statistics which characterise it, will be fully appreciated. To the general reader the subject will appear dry and uninviting, and the tables bewildering; while to the medical reader ,it will be found deficient in many of those medical and scientific elements which might naturally be expected to present themselves, when it is kept in mind that the subject treated of is in reality a disease or morbid state. Never-
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