Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum.

  • Diamond Hugh W.
Date:
1853
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    [Table No. 21.] ASSIGNED CAUSES. CAUSES. M. F. Total. Moral : Grief from death of friends, or other causes 1 8 9 Fright 2 3 5 Jealousy 1 — 1 Disappointed Affection 1 1 2 Reverse of Fortune 1 3 4 Losses in Business 1 — 1 Privations ' 1 — 1 Excessive Studv 1 — 1 Anxiety 3 — 3 Vexation 1 — 1 Religious Excitement — 8 8 Desertion of Husband — 1 1 Infidelity of Husband — 1 1 Domestic Quarrels — 1 1 Physical : Hereditary disposition 5 18 23 Intemperance 27 20 47 Fever 2 — 2 Diseased Heart 1 — 1 Childbearing — 16 16 Change of Life — 1 1 Old age, producing Loss of Memory, &c.. — 4 4 Poverty, producing General Debility .... — 9 9 In the following cases no other cause was assigned for the mental disorder than the disease with which it was combined :— Epilepsy 31 17 48 Paralysis 28 11 39 Concussion of the Brain 1 — 1 Being Deaf and Dumb 3 1 4 Not ascertained 60 66 126 Total 171 189 360