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1754

1763

JHC 27.1.1763 p.413. 91 name list of Select Committee members.

1763 SCHC: Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed 27.1.1763 to inquire into the state of the private madhouses in this Kingdom In JHC 22.2. pp 486-9 (see below) and in Hansard (Parliamentary History) Vol.15 cols 1283-91. A published version in Lambert Vol 25 and at Goldsmith's library, London University.

JHC 22.2.1763 pp 486-9. Report delivered by Townshend (Snr) on Select Committee's directions. He read it: "in his place; and afterwards delivered it to the Clerk's Table" (Report follows). The Select Committee's opinion "that the present state of the private madhouses in this kingdom, requires the interposition of the legislature" was put to the House of Commons and agreed. The report and House of Commons proceedings were to be printed under the direction of Mr Speaker. Ordered that: Townshend (Snr) and Messrs Rigby, Sergeant Hewitt, Eliah Harvey, Peter Burrell, Wilbraham, and Townshend Jnr (1) should prepare and bring in a Bill: for the regulation of Private Madhouses in this Kingdom" (2)

(1) All except Townshend Jnr had been members of the Select Committee.

(2) Edward Moore's index to the JHC stated (under: "House appoints Select Committee Madhouses. Private") that this bill was "not brought in".

JHC 11.2.1773 p.120. Report of 1763 Select Committee read. Townshend Jnr, Mr (Geo. Venables) Vernon, Capt Phipps and Mr Hotham to prepare and bring in a Bill.

Hansard (Parliamentary History vol.17) 11.2.1773, cols 696-7. Debate on leave to bring in. Townshend, seconded by Mackworth. Endnote: "The Bill passed the Commons, but was rejected by the Lords".

JHC 6.4.1773 p.262. Townshend brought in. 1st Reading. Ordered to be printed.

BILL (Printed 8.4.1773) Bills Public 1773, Vol.7, Bill no 231. Also in Lambert Vol.23

Hansard (Parliamentary History vol.17) 22.4.1773, cols 837-8. Debate on 2nd Reading.

JHC 4.5.1773 p.298 Amendments made at committee stage agreed by House of Commons. Bill with amendments to be engrossed. (No printing ordered)

JHC 10.5.1773 p.305 3rd Reading. Townshend to carry to House of Lords.

JHL 22.6.1773 p.686b. Ordered report of committee on bill to be received on this day three weeks.

1774

JHC 24.2.1774 p.492 Townshend Jnr, Phipps, Mr Ward, Vernon and Mr Hotham to prepare and bring in a Madhouses Bill. 2.3.1774 p.526 Townshend brought in. 1st Reading. Bill to be printed.

BILL For Regulating Private Madhouses (Printed 4.3.1774) Bills Public 1774-6, Vol.8, Bill no 257. Also in Lambert Vol.24

JHC 25.3, p.## Amendments made at the committee stage agreed by House of Commons. Bill engrossed (no printing ordered)

House of Lords DIVISION JHL 21.4.1774 p.138b.

House of Lords AMENDMENTS JHL 6.5.1774 p.169a. Also JHC 10.5.1774 pp.733-4

1774 Madhouses Act
Royal Assent 20.5.1774.

1800

From Wynn's statement in Hansard 23.1.1807 below it would seem it was in the summer or 1805 that he first raised in the Commons the subject of lunatics in gaols and poor houses.

JHC 20.1.1807 p.72 Wynn (6BIOH10) presented to the House "An account of the number of Lunatics and insane person now confined and under custody, in the different gaols, houses of correction, poor houses and houses of industry, in England and Wales, taken from returns received from several counties, so far as the same can be made." ACCOUNT printed as Appendix 13 p. 444.

Hansard (Cobbett's and Hansard) 23.1.1807 cols 514-515. Wynn moving for a Select Committee. "It was a year and a half since he had first called the attention of the House to this subject, which required immediate interference." Sturges Bourne asked a question.

JHC 23.1.1807 p.76 Select Committee Membership: Wynn, (William) Wilberforce, (William) Morton Pitt, Mr (William?) Dickenson (Dickinson?), Rose , Charles Dundas, Sir W. Wynn (See 6BIOH10), Francis Burton, Mr Bathurst, (Samuel) Whitbread, Shaw Lefevre, Sir Henry Paulet, St John Mildmay, Mr Attorney General (Sir Arthur Piggot to March and then Sir Vicary Gibbs), Mr Solicitor General (Sir Samuel Romilly to March, then Sir Thomas Plummer) and (Nathaniel?) Bond. 27.1.1807 Mr John Fane added.

JHC 1.7.1807 Select Committee re-ordered as above but without Bond and with Sturges Bourne (see 3.1.2) and Mr Patten added.

JHC 15.7.1807 p. 715 Wynn delivered the report. To be printed.

1807 SCHC: Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons ordered 23.1.1807 (Re-ordered 1.7.1807) "to inquire into the state of the criminal and pauper lunatics in England and Wales, and the laws relating thereto. ### page report accompanied by selected evidence, the main item of which was a letter from G.O. Paul dated 1.10.1806. The Select Committee's recommendations were very close to G. O. Paul's suggestions.
To be printed 15.7.1807 PP 1807 (39) vol 2, p.69

1808

JHC 6.4.1808, p. ### Moved report of 15.7.1807 to be read. Ordered leave to bring in "Bill for the better care and maintenance of Pauper and Criminal Lunatics." Wynn, Pitt, Burton, Rose, Dickinson and Sturges Bourne to prepare and bring in.

1808 County Asylums Act
Royal Assent 23.6.1808

13.11.1812 Report of the Inspector of Naval Hospitals - Remarks on the Management of Sick Officers, Seamen and Marines belonging to Her Majesty's Naval Service and of Such Prisoners of War as are committed to the House of Messrs Miles and Co of Hoxton for the Cure of Mental Derangement quoted in Papers Relating to Management of Insane Officers and Seamen in HM Naval Service, PP 1813-1814 (346) 12. 365. (Bibliography to Murphy, E. 2001a)

JHC 7.7.1813 p. 647 ordered leave to bring in a "Bill to repeal Act 14 Geo. 3 for Regulating Madhouses, and for making other provisions in lieu thereof". Rose, William Smith and James Abercromby to prepare and bring in.

JHC 10.7.1813 p.657 Rose presented. 12.7.1813 p. 659 2nd Reading. 14.7.1813 p.665 Mr Lushington reported from committee. Bill as amended to be printed. (BILL in PP 1812-1813, vol.2 pp 1391-1408) No further JHC entries indexed.

Hansard 5.4.1814 cols 416-417 Rose seeking leave to bring in Bill to repeal and make more effectual the 1774 Act.

JHC 5.4.1814 Rose and the Attorney General (Sir William Garrow) to bring in.

JHC 28.4.1814 p.217 Select Committee of Rose, (Richard) Hart Davis, (Samuel) Whitbread, Pitt, W. Smith, Lefevre, Mr Manning, (George) Tierney, Mr (Robert) Peel (Secretary for Ireland), William (Vesey) Fitzgerald, Alderman (Harvey Christian) Combe, Lord Advocate for Scotland (Archibald Colquhoun), Sir John Newport, Mr Lockhart, (George) Holme Sumner, Sir William Curtis.

Hansard 14.6.1814 cols 88-90 Discussion of possible deferment. Rose, Bennet, Wilberforce, Thompson, (Samuel) Whitbread, Levevre, W. Smith, Curtis and Sumner spoke. Wilberforce regretted his inability to attend the committee.

Hansard 11.7.18141 cols 662-663 Debate on 3rd Reading (passed). A speech by R. Seymour recorded. Mr Alderman Smith (not W.Smith), Bennet, Sir James Shaw, Mr P. Carew and Rose "expressed their opinions also in its favour".

LORDS CALENDAR p. 106 12.7.1814, First reading. 18.7.1814 Petition against from Governors of York Lunatic Asylum read, to lie on the table. 26.7.1814 Petition in favour from Godfrey Higgins, Esq, acting Magistrate of the W. Riding, read and to lie on the table. No further proceeding.

BILL Nos 108, 204 and 267 in PP 1813-1814 pp 369, 411 and 439.

Hansard 22.7.1814 cols 859-860. Rose moving for returns on Madhouses. His intention to expose facts he had hitherto kept back, next session.

Papers Relating to Management of Insane Officers and Seamen in HM Naval Service ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 25.7.1814 (cited footnote 29 Morris, A.D. 1958)

1815

Hansard Friday 28.4.1815 col. 954 Rose moving for a select Committee

JHC 28.4.1815 p.253. Membership: Rose, Wynn, W. Smith, (Samuel) Whitbread, R. Seymour, Sir Thomas Baring, Mr Peel, Curtis, Tierney, Shaw, Mr Vessey Fitzgerald, Mr Lockhart, Lord Advocate for Scotland (Archibald Colquhoun), Mr Thompson, Sumner, Mr Hart Davis, Sir John Newport, Manning, Bennet, Levevre, Mr Frankland Lewis, Mr Tomline, Sturges Bourne,

[The 1816 Select Committee was as above minus Whitbread (who had committed suicide) and plus Lord Viscount Milton, Admiral Frank, Mr Western, Lord Viscount Lascelles, Mr Duncombe and the Earl Compton. (JHC 8.2.1816 p.16). Fane, Mr Waldegrave, Sir Geo. Clerk, Lord Binning and Mr William Dundas were added on 23.2.1816 (JHC p.72). Sir Charles Pole, Admiral A.J. Markham and Mr Croker were added on 15.3.1816 (JHC p. 204) Wynn (sic) was added on 28.3.1816 (JHC p.251) Binning (sic) was added 10.6.1816 (JHC p.##)]

1815 SCHC: Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Madhouses in England
To be printed 11.7.1815. PP 1814-1815 (296) Vol 4, pp 801-1034
Includes lists of madhouses in London and Counties, signed by R. Powell MD, Secretary, 7.6.1815 [Powell's 7.6.1815 List]

Hansard 11.7.1815 cols 114-115 Rose moving for report to be printed

James Birch Sharpe "Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, etc, etc" of "5 Myrtle Street, Hoxton, London" re-published the report and evidence with "Each subject of Evidence arranged under its distinct head". His preface is dated 24.9.1815. Published by Baldwin, Craddock and Joy, London, 1815. The headings are: The Report, p.1 - York Asylum, p.11 - Bethlem Hospital, p.44 - Nottingham Asylum, p.152 - Retreat at York, p.160 - St Lukes Hospital, p.163 - Naval maniacs at Hoxton, p.178 - Powers of Commissioners, etc, p. 233 - Private Houses, etc, p.290 - Mr J. Bevans, Architect: Evidence and Papers, p.357 - Appendix, p.371.

1816

Hansard 8.2.1816 cols 344-345. Rose explaining that as chairman of the Select Committee of the last session he had been instructed to seek leave to bring in a Bill, but a minority of the committee being desirous of further investigation he had acceded to their wish and would move for a Select Committee instead of a Bill. [Membership of the committee given above under 1815 Select Committee]

1816 SCHC: [Three] Reports from the Committee appointed to consider of Provision being made for the better Regulation of Madhouses in England. To be printed: 1) 26.4.1816 2) 28.5.1816 (One page) 3) 11.6.1816 (With an appendix on Scotland). PP 1816 (227) (398) (451) Vol.6 pp 249-402.

Also published in 1816: "Observations of the Physician (Dr Monro) and Apothecary (Mr Haslam) of Bethlem Hospital, upon the evidence taken before the Committee of the House of Commons for regulating madhouses", H. Bryer: London, 1816. 55 pages.

Hansard 28.5.1816 cols 859-860. Rose bringing up report, obtaining leave for a Bill and outlining the bill. Binning and Mr Lyttelton also spoke.

JHC 28.5.1816 p.407 Rose, Mr Holford and Binning to prepare and bring in.

Hansard 17.6.1816 cols 1126-1128 Debate. Rose, R. Seymour, Wynn and Binning spoke.

LORDS CALENDAR p.120. 26.6.1816. 1st reading - to be printed. No further proceeding.

BILL Nos 407, 420 and 493 PP 1816 Vol.2 pp 493, 515, 537.

JHC 5.2.1817 p.31 Rose, Holford, Binning, R. Seymour, Bennet, Wynn and W. Smith to prepare and bring in a Madhouse Bill.

LORDS CALENDAR p.122. 21.3.1817. 1st reading - to be printed. "No further proceeding".

BILL No. 30 PP 1817 Vol.1 p.33

Hansard 3.2.1818 cols 142-143 Debate on a Scottish Lunatics Asylums Bill in the course of which Wynn said that as Rose had died someone else ought to take up the issue of the English Madhouses Bill and that if no one else would he would.

Hansard 10.3.1819 cols 971-974. Wynn obtained leave to bring in a "Madhouses Regulation Bill". He spoke about the House of Lords rejection of previous bills.

JHC 10.3.1819 p.210 Wynn, R. Seymour, Binning, Holford and Bennet to prepare and bring in.

Hansard (House of Lords) 24.6.1819 cols 1344-1348 Marquis of Lansdowne moved 2nd reading. Lord Chancellor Eldon opposed. Division (No names): For the Bill: 14. Against 35. Majority against the Bill: 21

1827

Hansard 13.6.1827 cols 1262-5. Debate on motion of Gordon for a Select Committee to inquire into the treatment of pauper lunatics in Middlesex, to consider the propriety of extending the provisions of the 1774 Madhouses Act to pauper lunatics, consolidating all Acts relative to lunatics and lunatic asylums, and of making further provisions. Gordon, Spring Rice (Under Secretary of State at the Home Office 16.7.1827- 22.1.1828), Alderman William Thompson (MP City of London), Ridley Colborne, M.A. Taylor, Mr Estcourt and Sir F. Burdett spoke.

JHC 13.6.1827 p. 556; 14.6.1827 p. 561; 19.6.1827 p. 578. Membership of the Select Committee: Gordon, Bourne (Home Secretary), M.A. Taylor, (Middlesex JP), Wynn, Thomas Wood (Middlesex JP), Althorpe (See h.10 ###), Geo. Dawson (Under Secretary of State at the Home Office 18.1.1822- 30.4.1827), (Ridley) Colborne, (Sir John) Newport, Thompson (MP City of London), Pallmer, Rice (Under Secretary of State at the Home Office 16.7.1827-22.1.1828), (John Cam.) Hobhouse (Westminster MP), Charles Wood, Calthorpe (probably H2), G.H. Rose, (William)) Ord, (John Nicholas) Fazakerley, (Charles Edmund) Rumbold, Stuart Wortley, Ashley, Perceval (Under Secretary of State at the Home Office 30.4.1827 to 16.7.1827), Somerset, Lennard, Villiers, Francis Baring, (E.) Protheroe, Wodehouse, Henry H. Liddell. Added 16.6.1827: Peter Du Cane, Added 19.6.1827: Byng.

1827 SCHC: Report from the Select Committee on Pauper Lunatics in the County of Middlesex and on Lunatic Asylums To be printed 29.6.1827. PP 1826-7 (557) Vol.6, pp 75-260.

[Note: a double page reference, 41/116, in 2.6.1d, indicates double numbering of pages]

JHC 29.6.1827 p. 605: Report delivered by Gordon.

1828

Hansard 19.2.1828 cols 575-585. Gordon moving, on Select Committee instructions, for leave to bring in a "Bill to Amend the Law for the Regulation of Lunatic Asylums". Gordon, Ashley (seconding), Peel (Home Secretary) and W. Smith spoke.

Return ordered to be printed 3.4.1828. Sums of money expended by the counties and the College of Physicians in pursuance of the 1774 Madhouses Act. Return moved for 22.2.1828 and re-printed 5.2.1830. PP 1830 (238) pp 271-274/1-4. The return is dated "Whitehall 3.4.1828".

JHL 29.4.1828 p.260. 2nd Reading "Pauper Lunatics" (CA) and "Lunatics Regulation" (M) Bill. Petition of Dr Edward Fox, Brislington House, Somerset, against Madhouse Bill.

Select Committee to consider Bills. Membership of: Lord Dacre, Lord Gower, Lord Kenyon, Lord Calthorpe (Brother of (H2)) , Lord Rolle, Lord Lauderdale, Lord Colchester, Lord Bexley, Lord Farnborough, Lord Wharncliffe (father of the Stuart Wortley on the 1827 Commons Select Committee), Lord Durham, Marquis Lansdowne, Earl Shaftesbury (father of H3)), Earl Roseberg, Earl Talbot, Earl Malmesbury, Earl Rosslyn, Earl Eldon, Viscount Melville, Viscount Goderich, Lord Bishop of Landaff. Added 1.5.1828 (p.291): Bishop of Bath and Wells, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (Henry Ryder), Lord Mount Eagle , Lord Melrose and Lord Skelmersdale. Added 2.5.1828 (p.308): Marquis of Bute and Viscount Vincent.

JHL 1.5.1828 p.291: Dr Bright (Physicians Commission Secretary) to attend and bring visitations book. Petitions respecting bills referred to Select Committee. Petitioners to be heard and evidence printed for use of the Select Committee. p.293: Petition of the Governors of St Luke's requesting "same footing as Bethlem Hospital in respect of Exemption".

JHL 2.5.1828 p.308: Petition of Lincoln Hospital for exemption.

JHL 8.5.1828 p.367: Dr Alexander Sutherland to attend

JHL 9.5.1828 p.400: Dr John Willis to attend

JHL 22.5.1828 p.471: Lord Kenyon reported that they had found the allegations (made?) of the Madhouse Bill to be true and made several amendments. Bill re-committed.

JHL 2.6.1828 p.487: Madhouse Bill referred to a Committee of the Whole House.

JHL 11.6.1828 p.529 and 12.6.1828 p.534: The Earl of Shaftesbury reported from the Committee of the Whole House, with amendments.

1828 SCHL Minutes of Evidence to Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Bills relating to Lunatics and Lunatic Asylums. JHL 1828 Appendix 2, pp 710-745

1828 Madhouses and County Asylums Acts
Royal Assent 15.7.1828

1829 Report To the Right Honourable Robert Peel, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department ("From Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy") Date 1.7.1829. Ordered (House of Commons) to be printed 15.6.1830. "Whitehall, 12 June 1830 ----- S.M. Phillips". A 5 page Report and 2 page Appendix. PP 1830 (541) Vol. 30, pp 275-284.

JHC 3.3.1829 p.99: Bill to amend the 1828 Madhouses Act to be brought in by Somerset, Gordon and Ross. 13.4.1829 p.225: Ross reported from Committee. 14.4.1829 p.229: 3rd Reading. Somerset to carry to House of Lords. (House of Lords agreed to without amendments)

1829 Madhouses Law Amendment Act
Royal Assent 14.5.1829

Account 1829: "An account of all monies received for licences by the Clerk of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy, and of all monies received and paid out of the consolidated fund to the said Clerk, from the 15th August 1828 to 1st August 1829; specifying the several Heads of Expenditure, as required by the Acts 9 Geo IV c.41, and 10 Geo IV c.18, s.9." Dated "Office of Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy, 19 Margaret-street, Cavendish-square, February 10th 1830". Signed "Robert Browne, Treasurer and Clerk". Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 19.2.1930. PP 1830 (67) Vol.30 pp 267-269.

Hansard 9.2.1830 cols 266-267. Gordon: The 1828 Madhouse Act had omitted to say that licence fees should be paid into public funds. £1,000 had piled up in one county as a result. Leave to bring in a Bill. Seconded by Mr Lyttleton.

Account 1830: Account of the Clerk of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy from 1.8.1829 to 1.8.1830, dated 14.3.1831. PP 1830-1831 (254) Vol.14 p.49.

Account 1831: Account of the Clerk of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy from 1.8.1830 to 1.8.1831, dated 13.3.1832. PP 1831-1832 (266) Vol.35 p.229.

Return of Licensed Houses by Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy for the Return of the Number of Lunatic Asylums in England and Wales 21.3.1831 [21.3.1831 List]

1832

JHC 2.2.1832 p.67 "A Bill for regulating the care and treatment of insane persons in England" ordered. Gordon, Somerset, Geo. Lamb and Rice to prepare and bring in. (With respect to Lamb and Rice see 3.5)

There are no entries in Hansard relating specifically to the 1832 Madhouse Bill. The following entry indicates the problems Parliament was then having with respect to its work:

Hansard 2.2.1832 col. 1198: Mr C.W. Wynn agreed with Lord Stormont

"in thinking there should be a certain day in the week set apart for the furthering through their various stages the several measures before the Houses, in some of which the country were as much interested as it could possibly be in the Reform Bill"

JHC 3.2.1832 p.70. Bill presented (No. 111) by Gordon.

JHC 6.2.1832 p.75. 2nd Reading. Bill referred to a Select Committee: Gordon, The Solicitor General (William Horne), Lamb (Under Secretary of State at the Home Office), Somerset, Rice (Under Secretary of State at the Home Office 1827), Ross, G.H. Rose, Freemantle, Mr Kenyon, Mr Strickland, Mr Bonham Carter, Mr Briscoe, Geo. Dawson (Peel's Under Secretary of State at the Home Office 18.1.1822-30.4.1827), William Brougham (MP for Southwark and the Lord Chancellor's brother), Fazakerley, Ord, Protheroe, Wynn, Lord Porchester, Mr Pussey, Mr Wil (l?)braham, and (George?) Spence. 1.3.1832 p.157 Gordon reported. Re-committed. 2,3,1832 p. 161 Warburton (sic) reported.

JHL 6.7.1832 p.361 After 2nd Reading Bill referred to a "Private Committee" (quote marks in JHL).

"Their Lordships, or any five of them, to meet on Monday next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, in the Prince's Lodgings, near the House of Peers; and to adjourn as they please."

All Lords who had been, were, or were to be present that session to be on the committee and the committee to appoint its own chairman.

BILL No. 648 Amendments made by House of Lords to the Bill for Regulating the Treatment of Insane Persons in England.

1832 Madhouses Act
Royal Assent 11.8.1832

1833 Chancery Lunatics Act
Royal Assent 24.7.1833.

1832/1833 Accounts. Two accounts of the Clerk of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy printed together. 1) from 1.8.1831 to 1.8.1832 (no date to account) 2) from 1.8.1832 to 3.7.1833 (no date to account). Ordered to be printed 21.8.1833. PP 1833 (704) Vol.34 p.65.

The content of the 1832/1833 Accounts suggests that the delay in preparing and presenting accounts was due to the death of the first Clerk-Treasurer. However, no accounts appear to have been printed for years ending August 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837 or 1838. Some aspects of the Accounts for 1837 and 1838 (with 1839, 1840 and 1841) were used in the Return ordered to be printed 3.2.1842

1833 Madhouses Law Amendment Act
Royal Assent 28.8.1833.

1834

House of Commons Report from the Select Committee on Medical Education. Three parts: first on the Royal College of Physicians, second on the Royal College of Surgeons, third on the Society of Apothecaries. PP 1834 vol. 13.

1834 Poor Law Report Report from His Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring into the Administration and Practical Operation of the Poor Laws. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 21 February 1834. [With Appendixes A- F.]
By the Commissioners for Inquiring into the Administration and Practical Operation of the Poor Laws. [1832-1834]
PP 1834 vol 27-39. 13 volumes

Mott, C. 1834 Examination of Mr Charles Mott, Contractor for the Maintenance of the Poor of Lambeth by E. Chadwick, Esq. in 1834 Poor Law Report, Appendix A, pp 192A to 209A. PP 1834 vol 29.

1834 Poor Law Amendment Act
Royal Assent 23.8.1834.

The three Commissioners who could be appointed under the Act, formally entered office on the day the Act received the Royal Assent. They were the Right Honourable Thomas Frankland Lewis; John George Shaw Lefevre, esquire; and George Nicholls. They and the Secretary, Edwin Chadwick, began to select the assistant commissioners who were to be the agents of the Commission's policies. George Coode was appointed Assistant Secretary on the same day as Chadwick. Amongst the Assistant Commissioners appointed were Charles Mott and James Philips Kay

PP 1835 (500) Vol.35 First Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners

1836-1841 Reports: Copies of the Annual Reports made by the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor, from 1835 to 1841, Both Inclusive. Ordered (House of Commons) to be printed 6.10.1841 (On Ashley's motion). Six reports occupying only 11 pages in all. The title is incorrect as the first report is that made in 1836 (for the period 1.6.1835 to 3.5.1836) not one made in 1835. PP 1841 Session 2 (56) Vol.6 pp 235-245.

PP 1836 (595) Vol.29 Second Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners With appendices A, B, C, D and E.

PP 1837 (546-1) Vol.31 [127] Third Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners

21.10.1837 London Medical Gazette editorial speaks of discussion in House of Commons "shortly before the close of the last session" suggesting "lunatic asylums will engage the attention which they deserve during the ensuing one".

PP 1837-1838 (147) Vol.28 [145] Fourth Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners (Appendix D. PP 1840 (147) vol.18 [1])

1838 Select Committee of the House of Commons Poor Law Asylum Act needs entering

Mott, C. 1838 Report from the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales to The Right Hon. Lord John Russell ... Relative to certain statements concerning the internal management of the workhouse at eye, in the Hartismere Union, Suffolk William Clowes. 38 pages. [Mott's Report pp 3-18 is dated Eye, Suffolk, 22.6.1838. Covering letter to Russell from T. Frankland Lewis and J.G.S. Lefevre is dated 25.6.1838. This refers to a Times report of 16.6.1838]

1839

Select Committee of the House of Commons Hereford Lunatic Asylum . Ordered 7.3.1839 "to inquire into the manner in which the house kept by Mr John Gilliard, for the reception of insane patients, at Hereford, has been conducted. Membership: Barneby, Ashley, Gordon, Somerset, Lord Seymour, Mr Gally Knight, R.V. Smith, Mr William Miles (replaced by Sir Edward Knatchbull 22.4.1839), Benjamin Hawes, Thomas G.B. Estcourt, Bolton Clive, John S. Pakington, [Henry George?] Ward, Milnes Gaskell, Henry Warburton, (replaced by Thomas Wakley, 22.4.1839). Committee reported 27.6.1839. (Irish University Press edition frontispiece)

PP 1839 (239) Vol.20 Fifth Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners With appendices. (Appendix E. PP 1840 (249) vol. 17 [367])

Account 1839: Account of the Clerk of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy from 1.8.1838 to 1.8.1839. Ordered to be printed 13.5.1840. PP 1840 (298) Vol.35 p.259. This seems to be the first account printed since 1833. It was re-printed in The Lancet on 6.6.1840 with the comment:

"We print the above Annual Return by the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy. They expend £3,000 a year. This is, no doubt, an important fact. It would be interesting to know what they do for the money. This would be still more important; for it is a curious fact, that they obtain invaluable returns, at considerable expense, and have never contributed a single item to our knowledge of insanity. The paid Commissioners should draw up an Annual Report, and should only receive their salaries when the report is delivered. Why pay men who neglect, or half discharge, their duty?"

PP 1840 (245) Vol.17 [397] Sixth Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners

PP 1840 Vol.39 pages 272 following

Account 1840: Account of the Clerk of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy from 1.8.1839 to 1.8.1840. Ordered to be printed 10.5.1841. PP 1841 (300) Vol.20 p.515.

21.9.1841: Debate on leave to bring in Madhouses Law Continuation Act

Hansard: 21.9.1841
Thomas Wakley attacks the commission

22.9.1841: Debate on he second reading of the Poor Law Continuation Act. (Hansard: 22.9.1841)

27.9.1841: Debate in which Peel was challenged to dissociate himself from the interpretation of his Poor Law policy held by Wakley and by anti-Poor Law Tories. (Hansard: 27.9.1841)

28.9.1841: Debate on a motion of Crawford and Ferrand intended to prevent Poor Law Commissioners establishing new unions.
Hansard: 28.9.1841
The Home Secretary responded that the Government was taking control of the Poor Law Commissioners, and Thomas Wakley proposed his alternative poor law

1841 Madhouses Law Continuation Act
Royal Assent 5.10.1841

5.10.1841 Granville Somerset moved for returns relating the fees paid to the individual medical and legal Metropolitan Commissioners, and the general finances of the Commission. And for returns relating to County administrations: licensed houses in each county; finances of county administration; visits to houses; cases of licences refused to be renewed, suspended or revoked. All returns for a five year period. Ordered to be printed 3.2.1842. (PP 1842 (468) vol.34 pp 3-39/1-37. In this case I have referenced the paper numbers).

PP 1841 (327) Vol.11 [201] Seventh Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners With Appendices.

1842

Return ordered to be printed 3.2.1842. Somerset's returns moved for 5.10.1841 (which see) PP 1842 (468) vol.34 pp 3-39/1-37. In this case I have referenced the paper numbers.

Poor Law Commission. Printed Directions on Lunatics in Workhouses 5.2.1842, quoted Metropolitan Commission's 1844 report pp 95-96.

8.3.1842 House of Lords debate on 1st Reading of the Chancery Lunatics Bill Hansard: 8.3.1842 cols 203-208.

17.3.1842: Debate on leave to bring in the Licensed Lunatic Asylums Bill:

Hansard 17.3.1842 cols 797-807;
There is another account of this debate in The Lancet 23.4.1842 pp 134-137.

LICENSED LUNATIC ASYLUMS BILL: "Bill for amending the laws relating to Houses licensed by the Metropolitan Commissioners and Justices of the Peace for the Reception of Insane Persons". Bills Public 1842 vol.3, pp 101-112, Bill no. 114 (?) dated 18.3.1842.

For the (then) British Medical Association's response to the debate and the Bill see The Lancet 2.4.1842 pp 29-30 and 23.4.1842 pp 137-138.

20.4.1842: Licensed Lunatic Asylums Bill in committee on Wakley's amendment

Hansard: 20.4.1842: cols 885-890.
There is another account of this debate in The Lancet 23.4.1842 pp 134-137.

Hansard 3.5.1842 Debate on the Charter, to be listed

INQUIRY BILL. Bill as amended. Bills Public 1842, vol.3, pp 113-126 (following 18.3.1842 Bill). Bill dated 23.5.1842. This amended bill differs so markedly from the 18.3.1842 Bill that I have given it a separate name.

Bill considered in committee, and amended, Bill reported and as amended to be printed (JHC 23.5.1842 pp 298-299)

16.7.1842 short debate:
Hansard: 16.7.1842 col. 223.

22.7.1842: House of Commons debate on 1st Reading of the Chancery Lunatics Bill Hansard 22.7.1842 cols 492-493.

1842 Lunacy Inquiry Act
Royal Assent 5.8.1842.

Account 1841: Account of the Clerk of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy from 1.8.1840 to 1.8.1841. Ordered to be printed 19.7.1842. PP 1842 (468) Vol.34 p.1.

PP 1842 (389) Vol.19 [1] Eighth Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners

Edwin Chadwick

Chadwick, E. 1842 Report to Her Majesty's Principle Secretary of State for the Home Office from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an Inquiry into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain..

Available as Chadwick, E. 1842/1965 Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain. Edited by M. W. Flinn, 1965. Edinburgh University Press.

1843

Account 1842: Account of the Clerk of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy from 1.8.1841 to 1.8.1842. Ordered to be printed 21.6.1843. PP 1843 (368) Vol.48 p.13.

28.2.1843 Ashley's address on the diffusion of moral and religious education among the working classes. Condition and Education of the Poor. Hansard: 28.2.1843 cols 47-104. extracts from

Monday 6.3.1843: Lord Brougham's announcement on crime and insanity. Hansard 6.3.1843

Tuesday 7.3.1843:

1. Mr Mackinnon's question to the Home Secretary on insanity and crime. Hansard 7.3.1843 cols 353- 354

2. Sir V. Blake's proposed bill to limit the plea of insanity. Hansard 7.3.1843 col. 424 [just after midnight on 7.3.1843/8.3.1843]

Monday 13.3.1843: Lord Chancellor's statement on the trial of McNaughton. Hansard 13.3.1843 cols 714-744

Friday 7.4.1843: Votes on Supply: Expense of criminal lunatics at Bethlem Hospital. Hansard 7.4.1843 col.687

Tuesday 25.4.1843:

1. Lord Monteagle's motion for returns of Irish Pauper Lunatics. (House of Lords) Hansard 25.4.1843 cols 885-887

2. Lord Campbell's question to the Lord Chancellor on crime and insanity Hansard 25.4.1843 cols 888-889

20.7.1843: Ashley draws Home Secretary's attention to the detention of lunatics in workhouses. Hansard 20.7.1843 cols 1283-1284

PP 1843 (468) Vol.21 [1] Ninth Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners

1844

London newspapers from Mogg's New Picture of London and Visitor's Guide to it Sights, 1844: "we subjoin a list of the principal. ... the Times takes decidedly the lead... The Morning Herald is also conducted in a style of great excellence. The Morning Post is more limited ... its circulation being chiefly confined to the leaders of fashion. ... through strictly speaking independent, [they] are the staunch advocates of Conservatism.   The Morning Chronicle ... enjoys, from its advocacy of Whig principles, a very extensive sale; as does the Morning Advertiser, the property of the Society of Licensed Victuallers.       The Standard, an evening paper... enjoys... a very extensive circulation. The Globe and the Sun are the evening advocates of the Whigs       the Age, the John Bull, the Spectator, the Examiner, the Satirist, the Sunday Times, the Weekly Times, the Observer, the Court Journal, the Dispatch, the Atlas, the Pictorial Times, Punch, and London Illustrated News ... complete the catalogue of the weekly papers.

Account 1843: Account of the Clerk of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy from 1.8.1842 to 1.8.1843. Ordered to be printed 25.4.1844. The first Account showing Inquiry expenses. PP 1844 (325) Vol.32 p.305.

Monday 25.3.1844: The Bishop of Exeter moves for the correspondence respecting the suicide of Mary Miller in Penzanze workhouse . (House of Lords) Hansard 25.3.1844

[Early July 1844] 1844 Report Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor 1844 - Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty - Bradbury and Evans, Printers, Whitefriars. 291 pages including appendices. The appendices include lists of asylums [1.1.1844 Lists]

Tuesday 2.7.1844: Mr Mackinnon moved:

"That a Select Committee be appointed to consider the Report of the Inspectors of Prisons, and the state of discipline in the Gaols for the adoption of an uniform system of punishment, with such improvements in the management as can be safely adopted" Hansard 2.7.1844 cols 259-272

Thursday 11.7.1844: Lord Monteagle's motion for an address to the crown respecting Irish Pauper Lunatics. (House of Lords) Hansard 11.7.1844 cols 619-622

Friday 12.7.1844: Debate in Committee on the Poor Law Amendment Act on the detention of Lunatics in workhouses. Hansard 12.7.1844 cols 743-7. For another account see The Lancet 20.7.1844 p 584.

Tuesday 16.7.1844: Motion of Captain Pechell respecting the pensions of naval officers in Haslar Naval Asylum. Hansard 16.7.1844 cols 967-968

Tuesday 23.7.1844: Debate on Ashley's motion for an address to the crown praying Her Majesty to take into consideration the 1844 Report. Hansard 23.7.1844 cols 1257-1288

Hansard title Treatment of Lunatics. Title used in Shaftesbury's Speeches

31.7.1844: relating to the Poor Law in Scotland and pauper lunatics on the Isle of Arran. Hansard 31.7.1844

1844 Welsh Report Supplemental Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy Relative to the General Condition of the Insane in Wales...August 25th 1844. Bradbury and Evans, Printers, Whitefriars. 62 pages including appendices and corrections to the early copies of the General Report.

The Lancet 14.9.1844, pp 763-765, meetings of the Governors of the Northampton Lunatic Asylum

PP 1844 (560) Vol.19 Tenth Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners With Appendices.

1845

The Lancet 18.1.1845: Editorial announcing (commencing that issue) serial publication of two courses of lectures by M. Baillarger (physician, Salpetriere, Paris) to be succeded by serial publication of lectures by John Conolly. The lectures by Conolly began to be published on 4.10.1845.

The Lancet 18.1.1845: Editorial criticising 1844 Report for comments on Hanwell not being willing to return patients to St Marylebone to make room for "urgent" cases and for its comments on non-restraint. The editorial drew on the pamphlet published by John Adams. The editorial mentions that a copy of the 1844 Report was sent to the Hanwell Magistrates by the Home Secretary (Sir James Graham).

The Lancet 15.2.1845: Editorial comparing Bethlem unfavourably with Paris

Account 1844: Account of the Clerk of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy from 1.8.1843 to 1.8.1844. Ordered to be printed 4.3.1845. PP 1845 (91) Vol.28 p.331.

JHC Friday 6.6.1845 Lunacy and Lunatic Asylums Bills Ordered. Lord Ashley, Sir James Graham and Mr Vernon Smith to prepare and bring in. Lunatic Asylums Bill presented by Ashley. 1st Reading (LA Bill).

Hansard Friday 6.6.1845 cols 180-202 Debate on Ashley's motion to bring in two bills on the treatment of insane persons in England and Wales

Hansard title Regulation of Lunatic Asylums. Title used in Shaftesbury's Speeches. There is another account of this debate in The Lancet Saturday 14?.6.1845 pp 19-21

JHC Friday 13.6.1845 1st Reading Lunacy Bill.

JHC Monday 23.6.1845 2nd Reading Lunacy and Lunatic Asylums Bills

JHC Wednesday 25.6.1845 Committee Lunacy and Lunatic Asylums Bills

JHC 1.7.1845 pp 666-667 Petition of John Thomas Perceval. Click on the book for an account and extracts Votes and Proceedings and JHC 1.7.1845 p. 669. Motion of Mr Christie in the Votes (order in JHC) for a return of licensed houses in jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Commission, Expenses of the Commission for past five years (with names and amounts to each person), Sums dispensed under the 1833 and 1842 Chancery Lunatics Act (with names and amounts to each person). JHC 1.7.1845 p. 669. Rest of above Order was not in Mr Christie's motion in the Votes: for a return (distinguishing males from females) of admissions, cures and deaths in each county asylum and licensed house for each year sine 1833, and the number remaining in the house on January 1st each year.

JHC Wed 2.7.1845 Report of the Committee: Commissioners' Salaries. Hansard Wednesday 2.7.1845 cols 1414-1417 Debate on Report of the Committee on the Lunacy Salaries and Expenses.

Hansard Wednesday 9.7.1845 cols 226-227 Debate on motion to go into Committee on the Lunatic Asylum's Bill.

Hansard Friday 11.7.1845 cols 395-418 Debate on motion to go into, and debate in the Committee on the Lunatics' Bill.

JHC Tue 15.7.1845 Committee Lunacy Bill. Negatived amendments.

Hansard Tuesday 15.7.1845 cols 525-530 Debate in the Committee on the Lunatics' Bill. [see Turner's pension]

JHC Wed 16.7.1845 Committee Lunacy Bill.

Hansard Wednesday 16.7.1845 cols 614-615 Debate on motion to go into, and debate in the Committee on the Lunatics' Bill.

JHC Fri 16.7.1845 Committee Lunacy Bill Reported.

JHC Tue 22.7.1845 3rd Reading Lunacy Bill adjourned.

Hansard Tuesday 22.7.1845 cols 891-892 Debate on 3rd Reading of the Lunatics' Bill.

JHC Wed 23.7.1845 3rd Reading Lunacy Bill.

Hansard: House of Lords debate on aborted 2nd Reading of the Lunatic Asylums Bill 24.7.1845 cols 1035-1036.

Hansard: House of Lords debate on 2nd Reading of the Lunatic Asylums Bill 25.7.1845 col.1085

Hansard (House of Lords) Tue 29.7.1845 cols 1186-1193 Outline by Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst of the nature and objects of the Lunacy Bill (Hansard says Lunatic Asylums Bill)

1845 Lunacy Act
Royal Assent 4.8.1845.

1845 Lunatic Asylum's Act
Royal Assent 8.8.1845.

PP 1845 (624)(660) Vol.27 [247][279] Eleventh Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners

1846

Account 1845: Account of the Clerk of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy from 1.8.1844 to 1.8.1845. Ordered to be printed 13.5.1846. PP 1846 (303) Vol.33 p.457.

Account 1845 Expenses: Account of commissioner's expenses. PP 1846, vol.33, p.407 [Return of 28.2.1846]

HAYDOCK LODGE MANUSCRIPTS JANUARY 1846

MH51/739 [Green Cover] Minutes of Evidence taken before the Lunacy Commission 15 January 1846 Evidence of G. Coode Esq. Part 1b. 328 pages.

Petition 12.6.1846 of Owen Owen Roberts. Votes and Proceedings 1846. Vo. 2 pp 1077-1079, dated 12 die Junii 1846. [Full text of petition]. The petiton was reprinted in The Times on 17.6.1846 and quoted extensively in the Commons on 26.8.1846

The Times Wednesday 17.6.1846 page 6: Editorial "some few years ago a person bearing the name of Mott..." "acts of misconduct... have been complained of in a petition that has just been presented to the House of Commons, and which we print elsewhere.

The Times Thursday 18.6.1846 page 8: To the editor of The Times: Letter from George Coode dated 17.6.1846

The Times Friday 19.6.1846 page 5: Editorial "Mr George Coode, the assistant secretary to the Poor Law Commission, deserves a few lines in answer to his blustering letter..."

Hansard (House of Commons) Friday 19.6.1846 cols 685-688 Mr W.O. Stanley's question to the Home Secretary (Sir James Graham) respecting allegations of a connection between the Poor Law Commissioners and Haydock Lodge Lunatic Asylum

The Times Saturday 20.6.1846 see below.

The Times Monday 22.6.1846 page 4: Editorial "It will be seen by the Parliamentary report in our paper on Saturday, that Mr Coode has been summarily dismissed..."

HLP 22.6.1846 Report. (First) Report of the Lunacy Commission to the Home Secretary. PP 1846 vol. 33 p. 459. This was a letter from the Secretary, Lutwidge, in reply to a letter from Sir James Graham of 13.6.1846. It is in the form of a diary of the Lunacy Commission's involvement, and was summarised in Hansard 26.8.1846 cols 1028 to 1033.

On 6.7.1846, Sir George Grey (Whig) replaced Sir James Graham (Conservative) as Home Secretary.

HAYDOCK LODGE MANUSCRIPTS JULY 1846

MH51/738 [Orange Cover] Minutes of Evidence taken before the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy. 10 July 1846 Part 1
180 pages. Evidence of Owen Owen Roberts (pp 1-104) and copies of letters to him. Includes P. Johnson 29.6.1846 (pp 67-70).

MH51/740 [Orange Cover] Minutes of Evidence taken before the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy. 10 July 1846 Part 2

MH51/741 [Orange Cover] Minutes of Evidence taken before the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy. 10 July 1846

MH51/742 [Orange Cover] Minutes of Evidence taken before the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy. 17 July 1846

HLP 31.7.1846 Report. (Second) Report of the Lunacy Commission to the Home Secretary. Ordered to be printed 3.8.1846. PP 1846 vol. 33 p. 459 [same as above?] [Report follows the examination of witnesses in July 1847. The Lunacy Board held a meeting to settle the Report on 23.7.1846. It was signed "Seymour, Chairman, pro.tem". On 30.7.1846 Seymour had to leave a Board meeting to see the Home Secretary about Haydock Lodge and on 31.7.1846 the Report was presented to the House of Commons. It was summarised in Hansard 26.8.1846 cols 1033 to 1036.

Return ordered to be printed 4.8.1846 Return of name and date of appointment of each Assistant Commissioner acting in the years from 1840 to 1846, and of amount paid to each; of services not connected with the Poor Law in which they may have been employed; the date of any resignation or removal, similar returns as to Secretaries and Assistant Secretaries. Names, dates of, nature of Assistant Commissioners conducting special enquiries. PP 1846 (572) vol.36, p.5

Moved for by Mr Arkwright, 25.6.1846. Return made by W.G. Lumley, Assistant Secretary to the Poor Law Commissioners. There were accusations that commissioners were preventing this return (Brougham: House of Lords Hansard 13.8.1846 col.646, accusation withdrawn? 14.8.1846 col.703) On 3.8.1846 "Mr Austin, from the Office of the Poor Law Commissioners, was called in; and at the bar presented, pursuant to order" (House of Commons Journals)

Return ordered to be printed 8.8.1846 Number of patients at Haydock Lodge on 1.1.1846 and places from which paupers were received. Called for by Mr W.O. Stanley. Discussed in Hansard 26.8.1846 cols 1036 following.

Hansard (House of Commons) Wednesday 26.8.1846 cols 1023-1056 Motion of Mr Wakley for a Commission of Inquiry respecting Haydock Lodge

HAYDOCK LODGE MANUSCRIPTS OCTOBER 1846

MH51/746 Sworn Statements [Haydock Lodge Inquiry hearings October 1846]

MH51/746 xxxvi 17.10.1846 Mr George Coode sworn. 10 sheets [Extracts]

PP 1846 (704)(745) Vol.19 [1][33] Twelfth Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners

1847 Report (A) Copy of the Second Annual Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor dated 30th June 1847 Ordered by H of C to be printed 15/12/1847. 1.5 pages of report with 4 page list of asylums. [30.6.1847 List] Also Visits, patients, miles for 6 months ended 4.8.1847. PP 1847-8, vol 26 pp 225-231.

1847 Report (B) Further Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor PP 1847-8. vol 32 p 371 [858 of 1847 session] - dated (I think) 24.6.1847
[This a further report to the Annual Report and not to be confused with the further report to the Home Secretary on Haydock Lodge (below)]

HLP 20.1.1847 Report. A Copy of a Further Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, relative to Haydock Lodge Lunatic Asylum. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 8.3.1847. 119 pages. PP 1847 vol 49 pp 1 to 119. This was a return to a House of Commons address of 15.2.1847. It is dated 20 January 1847 and signed (On behalf of the Board) Ashley.

Hansard (House of Commons) Monday 1.2.1847 cols 614-615 Mr W.O. Stanley requests the Home Secretary (Sir George Grey) to publish the Lunacy Commissioners' Report on Haydock Lodge and a question respecting loans for the construction of lunatic asylums.

Hansard (House of Commons) 31.3.1847 cols 675-676 Mr Nicholl asks the Home Secretary (Sir George Grey) if he intends to enforce the construction of lunatic asylums.

PP 1847 (816)(873) Vol.28 [1][35] Thirteenth Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners

1848 Report Third Annual Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor, 30 June 1848 Presented to the House of Commons by command [22.2.1849 by Cornewll Lewis. JHC p.86]
5 pages of Report. 7 pages of appendices: Appendix 1: Lists of Asylums; Appendix 2: Lists of workhouses visited..4.2.1847 to 30.6.1848; Appendix 3: a summary of progress since last report in providing new asylums, or increased accommodation for pauper lunatics, unions of counties etc and contracts with proprietors of licensed houses. PP 1849, [1028] vol 22 pp 383-393.

PP 1847/1848 (960) Vol.33 [1] Fourteenth Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners

1849 Report Fourth Annual Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor, 30 June 1849 Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 1.5.1850
14 pages of Report. 12 pages of appendices: Appendix A: Number of Insane Persons confined in Asylums and Licensed Houses 1.1.1849 [i.e. the asylums list with different information]. [1.1.1849 List] Appendix B: Progress in provision for pauper lunatics. Appendix C: Workhouses visited 30.6.1848 to 30.6.1849
PP 1850, [291] vol 23 pp 365-390.

1850 Report Fifth Annual Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor, 30 June 1850 "Return to an Order of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 10 August 1850..." "(Mr Bouverie)". Ordered to be printed 15.8.1850
16 pages of Report. 31 pages of appendices: Appendix A: [asylums]; Appendix B: [workhouses] [as previously]. Appendix C is a three part report on Cholera (21 pages). There is no progress in provision report. PP 1850, [735] vol 23 pp 395-441 (where it follows the fourth report above).

1852 Report Seventh Annual Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor 30.6.1852
PP 1852-1853, vol 49

1853 Report Eighth Annual Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor
PP 1854, vol 29

1855 Report Ninth Annual Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor, 31st March 1855
PP 1854-1855, vol 17

1856 Report Tenth Annual Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor, 31st March 1856
PP 1856, vol 18

Alcock's Return County and Borough Lunatic Asylums, date opened and number of patients. Also Licensed Houses Taking Paupers. My notes, incompetently referenced, just say "Alcock's return 1858". The last date of opening is Essex on 23.9.1853. (See timeline 1853) Durham "not yet opened". Four asylums now being erected: the joint Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Huntigdonshire at Arlsey - Cumberland and Westmoreland near Carlisle - Sussex, Haywards Heath - Northumberland at East Cottingwood.

1859

1859-1860 SCHC: [Three] Reports from the Select Committee of the House of Commons "on the operation of the Acts and Regulations for the care and treatment of lunatics and their property.
April - August 1859 and July 1860
I have referenced to the date that evidence was given and the question number.

Commissioners in Lunacy: Supplement to 12th Report 1859: "The Conditions, Character and Treatment of Lunatics in Workhouses"

Thirteenth Annual Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor
PP 1859, 2, vol 14, p.529 has London licensed houses and number of patients on 1.1.1859 [1.1.1859 List]

Report of H.B. Farnall, Esquire, Poor Law Inspector, on the Infirmary Wards of the several Metropolitan Workhouses, and their existing Arrangements
PP 1866, (387) vol 61.

Report of The Lancet Sanitary Commission for Investigating the State of the Infirmaries of Workhouses

Report of Dr Edward Smith, Medical Officer to the Poor Law Board, on the sufficiency of the existing Arrangements for the Care and Treatment of the Sick Poor in 48 Provincial Workhouses in England and Wales
PP 1867-1868, (4), vol 60.

Twenty Second Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor PP 1867/1868 Vol 31 pp 1-301 [Asylums List on Rossbret site] [1867 List] also comments on houses

1870 Education Act

Twenty ninth Annual Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor 31.3.1875
PP Reports xxxiii 1875, has London licensed houses and number of patients on 1.1.1874 [1.1.1874 List]

1876 Education Act

1877-1878 SCHC: Reports from the Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed 12.2.1877 under the chairmanship of Thomas Dillwyn "to inquire into the operations of Lunacy Law so far as regards security afforded by it against violations of personal liberty".
Reports in 1877 and 1978

Report of The Lancet fact-finding commission on "The Care and Cure of the Ins