Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum (Wandsworth,) for the year 1867.

  • Surrey Lunatic Asylum (Wandsworth, London, England)
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[1868]
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Credit: Report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum (Wandsworth,) for the year 1867. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Table No 9.] CHARACTER OE MENTAL DISEASE ON ADMISSION. FORM OF DISEASE. M. F. ! T. Mania ... 49 30 79 Dementia . 58 45 103 Melancholia. 4 5 9 Imbecility . 9 7 16 Total.. 120 87 207 [Table No. 10.] ASSIGNED GAUSS OF INSANITY IN THE CASES ADMITTED DURING 1867. CAUSE. M. F. ! T. Moral : — Death of Child . 0 3 3 Desertion by Paramour .. 0 1 1 Disappointment in Love. 0 1 1 Domestic Unhappiness .. 1 3 4 Fright 2 2 4 Grief . 2 2 4 Loss of Situation. 1 0 1 Pecuniary Difficulties . 0 1 1 Religion. 0 2 2 Supposed Loss of Money . 0 1 1 Want of Employment. 0 1 1 Physical : — Amenorrhoea. 0 1 1 Congenital . 12 1 13 Depression and Exhaustion from Carbuncle. 1 0 1 Epilepsy. 10 7 17 Hereditary . 3 2 5 Injury to Head.. 8 0 8 Intemperance. 14 1 15 Masturbation. 1 0 1 Old Age .. .. 1 0 1 Opium Eating. 1 0 I Over Study . 1 0 1 Over Work . 1 0 1 Poverty. 1 3 4 Puerperal State . 0 3 3 Sleeping by Lime Kiln. 1 0 1 Sunstroke. 1 0 1 Syphilis Typhus . 0 1 1 0 1 1 Not ascertained . 58 50 108
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