From a table appended to the Provincial Surgeon's Report on the Dunedin Lunatic Asylum for the year ending 31st March 1872, we learn that the number of patients remaining in the Asylum at the end of the year was 153. The occupations of those admitted during the year are thus described :—Bank managers, 2; barber, 1 ; bottle-gatherer, 1 ; carpenters, 2 ; chemist, 1 ; clergyman, 1 ; domestic servants, 8; draper, 1 ; fanners, 4; farmer's wife, 1 ; gentleman, 1 ; grocer, 1 ; housekeepers, C ; hotelkeepers, 3 ; labourers, 12 ; labourer's wife, 1; miners, 14 ; ploughman, 2 ; sailors, 2 ; shepherds, 3 ; schoolmaster, 1 ; storeman, 1. The nett average cost of each patient for the year only amounted to £2O 14s Ud.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 138, 2 July 1872, Page 6
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115Untitled Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 138, 2 July 1872, Page 6
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