Fifty-Sixth Annual Report of the Inspector of Prisons and Public Charities Upon

Excerpt from Fifty-Sixth Annual Report of the Inspector of Prisons and Public Charities Upon the Hospitals for the Insane, Feeble-Minded and Epileptic of the Province of Ontario: Being for the Year Ended 31st October, 1923 (Classic Reprint)The history of the Ontario Hospitals for the Insane, Feeble-minded and Epileptic does not vary much from year to year. It is a history of a progressive increase in numbers and a corresponding increase in the cost of maintenance. It would be an agreeable task to be able to inform the public that as a result of a thorough diagnosis, based upon the science of psychiatry, and by the application of modern methods of treating the insane, we have been able to check the progress of insanity in this Province, but the facts do not warrant this optimistic claim. We still have twelve hospitals in the Province specially provided and maintained by public funds, as well as two private sanitaria for the treatment of mental diseases, and our large public hospitals are constantly filled to their utmost capacity. The accompanying table tells its own story.