Ninety-sixth annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year 1908.
- Royal Edinburgh Asylum
- Date:
- [1909]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Ninety-sixth annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year 1908. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![45 TABLE X,—Showing the Frobahle Causes of Insanity in the Patient* Admitted during the Year 1908. Number of Instances in which each Cause was Assigned. Causes of Insanity. Admissions | No. of Cases. , 106; F., 13S; T., 239. As predisposing cause.* As exciting cause. Total, t M F T M F T M F T Mental and Moral :— Mental anxiety and worry 0 0 0 3 5 8 3 5 8 Loss of Work 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 o: 1 Physical : Intemperance in drink 6 1 7 17 10 27 23 11 34 Phthisis ... 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 3 3 Influenza... 0 0 0 5 6 11 5 6 11 Syphilis ... 6 0 6 0 0 0 6 0 6 Apoplexy 0 0 0 3 1 4 3 1 4 Lactation 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 Pregnancy 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 2 2 Childbirth 0 0 0 0 5 5 0 5 5 Puberty and Adolescence 2 2 4 4 13 17 6 15 21 Change of life ... 0 0 0 2 11 13 2 11 13 1 Old age ... . 2 1 3 2 7 9 4 8 12 I Epilepsy ... 0 0 0 4 0 4 4 0 4 f Carcinoma 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 ! Gross Brain Disease 0 0 0 2 1 3 2 1 3 I Sunstroke 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 Traumatism 1 0 1 2 0 2 3 0 3 Rheumatism, Acute 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 i Locomotor Ataxia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Masturbation 0 0 0 3 0 3 3 0 3 Erysipelas . 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 Acromegaly 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 Bisulphide of Carbon ... 1 0 1 0 0 0 ] 0 1 1 Drug.s, Abuse of ; Surgical Operation 0 0 0 1 0 1 ] 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 Overwork 0 0 0 2 1 1 3 2 1 3 ^ Marriage : Toxtemia ... 0 0 0 0 i 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 ! 0 1 1 ! Exophthalmic Goitre ... 0 0 0 0 1 1 i 0 1 1 1 direct 2 18 20 0 0 0 ^ 2 18 20 Hereditary influences < collateral 14 18 32 0 0 0 14 IS 32 ( both ... 3 11 14 0 0 0 3 11 14 Previous attacks 34 43 77 0 0 0 i 34 43 77 Congenital 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 1 2 Unknown i 59 120 50 52 102 61 59 120 * With reference to the distinction between “ predisposing” and “exciting” causes, it must be under¬ stood that no single cause is enumerated as both predisposing and exciting in the case of any individual patient. t The figures in the Total column represent the entire number of instances in which the several causes (either a’one or in <• )iubination with others') were stated to have produced the mental disorder. The excess of the aggregate of such causes over tlie number of patients admitted is owing to combiua- l.ions of causes.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30304581_0078.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
