Twenty-third annual report of the directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics : submitted, in terms of their charter, to a general meeting of the directors, 19th June, 1843.

Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics

Date:: 1843

Credit: Twenty-third annual report of the directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics : submitted, in terms of their charter, to a general meeting of the directors, 19th June, 1843. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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TABLE OF ADMISSIONS ACCORDING TO THE CAUSES OF INSANITY, SO FAR AS THEY CAN BE ASCERTAINED. PHYSICAL CAUSES. Males. Hereditary tendency, . . . .11 Drunkenness, ..... 3 Ditto, with hereditary predisposition, . 2 Predisposition from previous attack, 1 ^ exciting cause unknown ^ . j Bodily disease, with hereditary predisposition, 0 Lactation, . . . . .0 Seabathing, . . . . . 1 Fever,.1 Epilepsy, ...... 1 Masturbatio (one with hereditary predisposition,) 2 Apoplexy, ...... 1 Injury of head, ...... 1 Critical period, ..... 0 Total, . . . .24 ill. MORAL CAUSES. Males. Suicide of father, with hereditary predisposition, 1 Do. of neighbour, .... 0 Grief, ....... 0 Disappointed love, ..... 1 Misfortunes, ...... 1 Alarm by fire, ...... 1 Anxiety, ...... 0 Unknown, 4 1 Total, 5 Females. 10 1 0 2 2 1 0 4 1 0 0 0 1 Total. 21 4 2 3 2 1 1 5 2 2 1 1 1 22 Females. 0 1 3 0 0 0 1 5 5 10 46 Total. 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 9 6 15

Twenty-third annual report of the directors of the Dundee Royal Asylum for Lunatics : submitted, in terms of their charter, to a general meeting of the directors, 19th June, 1843.

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