Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor. Presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty / [by the Earl of Shaftesbury].

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London : Bradbury and Evans, 1844.

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2 unnumbered leaves, 291 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : tables ; (8vo)

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Includes extensive statistical material
For Shaftesbury's participation see DNB IV, 1059
First edition, Hunter & Macalpine, p. 923 f. "This first Report ... presents us with a full exposition of the state of lunacy in England and Wales ... not merely a report on asylums but an inverted pyramid the apex of which was asylum inspection and the base of which a survey of the practice of psychiatry among all classes and institutions "
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