Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum.

  • Surrey Lunatic Asylum
Date:
1850
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Credit: Annual report of the Committee of Visitors of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Table, No. 21.] ASSIGNED CAUSES. CAUSES. M. F. Total. Moral Disappointed Affection. . 2 — 2 Domestic Affliction, Poverty, and Distress 2 2 4 Want of Employment . Incurring Debt ..... 2 1 2 1 Ill Usage and Desertion of Husband .... — 3 3 Reverse of Fortune . — 2 2 Religious Excitement .. Political Exr.itomfint. 1 1 -. 1 1 Grief. Death nf near Relations. 3 3 Fright. 1 1 Physical :— Hereditary Disposition.. 8 15 23 Intemperance. 8 5 13 Coup de Soleil . 1 —- 1 Childbearing. — 2 2 Critical period of life. — 1 1 Suppressed Catamenia. — 1 1 Chorea ... _____ 1 1 Hysteria. _ 1 1 In the following cases no other cause was assigned for the mental disorder, than the disease with which it was combined :— Epilepsy. 25 34 59 Paralysis ... 3 3 6 General Paralysis was afterwards developed in a considerable number of Male Patients. Not ascertained. 130 183 313