The fifty-sixth annual report of the Murray Royal Asylum Perth / [James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics].

  • James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics
Date:
1883
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Credit: The fifty-sixth annual report of the Murray Royal Asylum Perth / [James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    may add that I had a letter from him lately, in which he says that he is getting on very well, and is sustained by the knowledge that he can find refuge here when necessary. Such results are both cheering and encouraging; for, however valuable the Institution may be in affording a home to those who need a resting-place for life, it cannot be doubted that its higher purpose is to restore its inmates to health and work. As usual, in the great majority of cases, a Causes of distinct history of hereditary tendencies to mental disease was obtained. Fourteen were members of families in which insanity or allied disorders of the nervous system had occurred. These persons having fallen on evil days—having become the prey of disease, harmful habits, grief, or anxiety— readily succumbed to exciting causes that would, in all probability, have made but little impression on more healthily constituted individuals. Ill- treatment of the body, by overwork and tippling, caused insanity in one case ; grossly intemperate habits, and their concomitants, in another: neither of these had any hereditary predisposition so far as can be ascertained. The climacteric period, and a disappointment in a love affair, each caused one case. The puerperal condition was responsible for two in previously healthy individuals. Sun¬ stroke was the assigned cause for two others, and two were of unknown origin. Those admitted came from the following Former * * • • • s* -j-x 11* c r i * Residences of localities :—bix from .Perthshire, four from Pehn- Admissions. burgh, four from Glasgow, two from Inverness, six from other parts of Scotland, and one from
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