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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    II.—ADMISSIONS—[Continued]. Males. Females Total. Upholsterer, wife of an, 0 1 1 Victual-dealer, wife of a, 0 1 1 Weavers, 2 2 4 Weaver, wife of a, 0 1 1 Woolspinner, 1 0 1 4.—Form of Insanity. Dementia, 4 2 6 Mania, Acute, 5 9 14 „ Chronic, 0 1 1 „ Kleptomania, 0 1 1 „ Nymphomania, 0 1 1 „ Puerperal Mania, 0 2 2 General Paralysis, 1 1 2 Melancholia, ... 9 12 21 Monomania, 5 4 9 5.—Causes assigned.* Anxiety about state of wife’s health, 1 0 1 ,, family concerns, 0 1 1 Catamenial irregularities, 0 2 2 Cold, exposure to, 1 0 1 Congenital, ... 0 1 1 Disappointment in marriage, 0 1 1 Domestic unhappiness, ... 1 0 1 Excessive study, ... 1 0 1 Family leaving for America, 0 1 1 Fright, ... 0 2 2 Grief after death of sister, 0 1 1 tiered itary, 0 1 1 Intemperance in the use of alcoholic liquors, „ „ snuff or tobacco, Jealousy on part of husband, 1 1 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 Loss of hand by a machinery accident, 0 1 1 Love affairs, 1 0 1 Marriage of a fellow-workman, 1 0 1 Masturbation, 1 0 1 Miscarriage, and family afflictions, 0 1 1 None assigned or known, ... 10 9 19 Parturition, ... 0 4 4 * In Schedules of Admission. But very seldom indeed do the causes assigned appear to be the real causes of Insanity : the latter are more remote, indirect, and general, and hence come less immediately under the observation of relatives or guardians.