APPENDIX-MENTAL DEFICIENCY-TABLE No. II. Table showing the Number on the Register of Rate-Aided Mental Defectives of each sex chargeable to each Lunacy District in Scotland on 1st January, 1927, and the manner of their distribution, also the number per 100,000 of the population. APPENDIX-MENTAL DEFICIENCY-TABLE No. III. Showing the Number of Private and Rate-Aided Defectives of each sex in each of the Certified Institutions on 1st January, 1927, and the changes which have taken place during the year 1926, also the rate of board in each Institution. APPENDIX-continued. LIST of Scottish Lunacy Districts, and names and addresses of Clerks to the District Boards of Control, the Asylums serving these Lunacy Districts, with Postal Addresses, and names of Superintendents. and Kin- Forfar and Kincardine, R. Freer Myles, Forfar except Dundee Parish and part of Aberdeen Parish in Kincardine. Montrose Royal Montrose Gartloch District Kirklands Bothwell C. J. Shaw, M.D. Wm. M. Buchanan, M.B., Ch.B. Archibald Sutherland, Lerwick. Montrose Royal Montrose James Dobbie, 3 Port Street, Stirling District Larbert Patrick Steele, M.D. J. Curle, W.S., Melrose *For Mental Deficiency purposes only. APPENDIX-continued. CIRCULAR ISSUED TO CLERKS AND TREASURERS TO DISTRICT BOARDS OF CONTROL REGARDING THE METHOD OF CALCULATING PROPORTIONATE PARTS OF PENSION UNDER THE ASYLUMS OFFICERS' SUPERANNUATION ACT, 1909. SIR, GENERAL BOARD OF CONTROL FOR SCOTLAND, G. No. 2,137. ASYLUMS OFFICERS' SUPERANNUATION ACTS. With reference to the Circular No. 142 issued by the Board on 20th November, 1911, and enclosing for the information and guidance of District Boards of Lunacy, a copy of a Home Office Circular, dated 9th November,, 1911, I am directed to say that it has recently come to the notice of the Board that, in England, an alteration has been made in the method of computing the proportionate parts of pension payable by the respective Asylum Boards where an Officer has served under more than one authority. Under the method which is described in the Circular above referred to and which has now been superseded in England, the liability of the first authority was fixed at the date of the Officer's removal and was independent of the salary, etc., subsequently received by the Officer in the service of the second authority. This method having been found in practice to give rise to various anomalies, the English Law Officers were requested to give their opinion as to the correct interpretation of the proviso to Section 12 of the Asylums Officers' Superannuation Act, 1909. In their opinion, given under date 15th June, 1923, the method which leads to the most just and equitable result while being quite consistent with the provisions of the Act, is that method whereby each authority contributes in shares proportionate to the sums arrived at by multiplying the average annual salary and emoluments at each asylum by the years of service at that asylum, i.e., each authority contributes that proportion of the whole pension which the amount of remuneration (i.e., salary and emoluments) paid by such authority bears to the whole remuneration received by the Officer throughout his period of service. In the circumstances the Board decided to obtain the opinion of the Scottish Law Officers and they have now advised that the method approved of by the English Law Officers and outlined in the preceding paragraph is correct and should be adopted in Scotland. Under the proviso to Section 12 of the Asylums Officers' Superannuation Act, 1909, it is stated that the proportionate part of pension payable by the former of two employing Asylum Authorities shall be settled by agreement between the two Authorities, or, in default of agreement, by the Secretary for State (in Scotland, the General Board of |