Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the Borough of Birmingham, presented to the Town Council on the twenty-eigth of March, 1854, being their third annual report : together with the reports of the Medical Superintendent and Chaplain also an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year 1853.

Birmingham Borough Lunatic Asylum

Date:: 1854

Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Lunatic Asylum for the Borough of Birmingham, presented to the Town Council on the twenty-eigth of March, 1854, being their third annual report : together with the reports of the Medical Superintendent and Chaplain also an account of the receipts and payments to the end of the year 1853. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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TABLE VII. CIYIL AND RELIGIOUS CONDITION. M. F. TOTAL. Married . 47 40 87 Single . 33 33 66 Widowed ... . 7 14 21 174 Established Church . 57 56 113 Homan Catholic . 3 6 9 Protestant Dissenters . SO 24 44 Jewish . 5 1 6 Not known... . 2 0 2 174 Of fair Education ... . 9 1 10 Able to Read and Write ... . 66 43 109 Able to Read only ... . 7 21 28 Uneducated... . 5 22 27 174 TABLE VIII. SUPPOSED CAUSE OF DISORDER. M. F. TOTAL Trouble, Reverses, Privations ... 23 26 49 Congenital Defect 0 3 3 Epilepsy or Paralysis ... 5 5 10 Sensual Excess... 29 11 40 Coup de Soleil ... 1 0 1 Blow on Head ... 3 1 4 Religious Anxiety 4 2 6 Fright ... ... . 0 1 1 Love ] 7 8 Old Age 0 3 3 Over Application 7 0 7 Imprisonment ... 2 0 2 Unknown 12 28 40 87 87 174 Hereditary Disposition ascertained in. 21 27 48

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