Eighty-ninth annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year 1901.

  • Royal Edinburgh Asylum
Date:
[1902]
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Credit: Eighty-ninth annual report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the insane : For the year 1901. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE X.—' £flowing the Probable Causes of Insanity in the Patients Admitted during the Year 1901. Number of Instances in which each Cause was Assigned. Causes of Insanity. Admissions j ^ No. of Cases. , 215]; F., 226; T., 441. As predisposing cause.* As exciting cause. Total, f M F T M F T M F T Mental and Moral :— Domestic trouble 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 Mental anxiety and worry 0 0 0 1 2 3 1 2 3 Mental shock 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 Overwork 0 0 0 1 3 4 1 3 4 Solitary life 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 Physical: Intemperance in drink 10 3 13 61 36 97 71 39 110 Syphilis ... 6 1 7 7 1 8 13 2 15 Injury to head (traumatic) 0 0 0 2 2 4 2 2 4 Lactation 0 0 0 0 6 6 0 6 6 Pregnancy 0 1 1 0 5 5 0 5 5 Childbirth 0 0 0 0 7 7 0 7 7 Puberty and Adolescence 4 5 9 21 25 46 25 30 55 Change of life ... 2 5 7 8 18 26 10 23 33 Old age ... 4 3 7 6 28 34 10 31 41 Privation and starvation 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 Gross cerebral disease ... 0 1 1 45 11 56 45 12 57 Epilepsy ... 2 0 2 12 5 17 14 5 19 Phthisis ... 0 1 1 4 2 6 4 3 7 Influenza... 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 Sunstroke 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 Masturbation 0 0 0 3 1 4 3 1 4 Heart Disease ... 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 3 3 Bright’s Disease 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 Typhoid fever ... 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 Hysteria ... 2 3 5 0 0 0 2 3 5 Chorea 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 Immorality 0 3 3 1 0 1 1 3 4 Locomotor Ataxia 1 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 2 Exophthalmic Goitre ... 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 Other bodily diseases ... 0 1 1 3 1 4 3 2 5 ( direct 21 11 32 0 0 0 21 11 32 Hereditary influences < collateral 36 30 66 0 0 0 36 30 66 ( both ... 13 19 32 0 0 0 13 19 32 Previous attacks 39 68 107 0 0 0 39 68 107 Congenital 5 7 12 0 0 0 5 7 12 Unknown 95 90 185 41 65 106 95 90 185 * With reference to the distinction between “ predisposing1” 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 alone or in combination with others) were stated to have produced the mental disorder. The excess of the aggregate of such causes over the number of patients admitted is owing to combina¬ tions of causes.