Thirty-third annual report of the directors of James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics, near Perth. June, 1860.

  • James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics
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1860
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Credit: Thirty-third annual report of the directors of James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics, near Perth. June, 1860. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE III.—[Continued]. b. State of the Weather throughout Scotland. 5. May, .In many respects unusual and even unprecedented. Barometric height above average of May for several years, as well as of the previous months of 1850; while barometric range less than during the years 1856-7-8. Mean temperature also above average, both of previ¬ ous months of 1859 and of previous Mays. Humidity less than ever before noted [we presume since the Registration Act came into operation in January, 1855]. Also rain deficient beyond precedent. Wind with an abnormal tendency south-east, and strikingly wanting in ozone. O IV.—Showing the form of Insanity in the instances referred to in Tables I. and II. 1 Mania, Acute, mostly first attacks and recent cases, in 36 instances. „ Puerperal, 10 )> „ Chronic, recurrent or paroxysmal, 80 33 Monomania, 20 3> Dipsomania, 4 33 Melancholia, ... 40 Dementia, with Paroxysmal Mania, ... 8 33 General Paralysis, ... ... ... ... ... 11 3 3 209 33