Twenty-first annual report of the directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics : submitted in terms of their charter to a general meeting of directors, July 5, 1841.

  • Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics.
Date:
1841
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Credit: Twenty-first annual report of the directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics : submitted in terms of their charter to a general meeting of directors, July 5, 1841. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    TABLE OF ADMISSIONS ACCORDING TO THE CAUSES OF INSANITY, SO FAR AS THEY CAN BE ASCERTAINED. PHYSICAL CAUSES. Males. Females. Total. o o 7 15 Drunkenness, - . . _ 5 1 6 Excess of fatigue, with hereditary pre ) 0 disposition, . - - J Ditto of suckhng and deficient nourishment, 0 Critical period, - - . . 0 After typhus fever, - - - 2 2 4 Old Age, . _ . - 1 0 1 Injuries, 1 0 1 High living, with hereditary predisposition. 1 0 1 Childbirth, with hereditary predisposition. 0 1 1 Total, - - - 18 14 32 MORAL CAUSES. Males. Females. Total. Disappointments, . _ . 2 0 2 Grief, .... - 4 3 7 Ditto, with hereditary predisposition, 0 1 1 Disappointed love, - 0 1 1 Fright, . . . . 1 2 3 Reverse of circumstances, - - 0 2 2 Excess of study, _ - . ] 0 1 Anxiety, - - . . - 0 1 1 Remorse, . , . - 1 0 1 Unknown, - . - - - G 1 Total, - 15 11 26