Sixth report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Date:
[1858]
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Credit: Sixth report of the Derbyshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    r The Ages of the seventy-nine Cases divided into quinquennial hods have been as follows :— BETWEEN THE AGES OF MALES. FEMALES. TOTAL 15 and 20. 1 3 4 20 and 25. 6 5 11 25 and 30. 3 3 6 30 and 35. 4 5 9 35 and 40. 2 4 6 40 and 45. 9 4 13 45 and 50. 7 2 9 50 and 55. 5 3 8 55 and 60. 3 1 4 60 and 65 . 3 1 4 65 and 70. 3 1 4 70 and 75 . 0 1 1 46 33 79 ' This Table accords in its chief facts with those which have n recorded through a series of years at Hanwell, and some ; er Asylums in England, although somewhat at variance with Lunacy Reports obtained from the United States of America* i anity shows itself in that country at an earlier age than with ! The one Male case occurring prior to the age of twenty rs was that of a congenital idiot, Avho had become maniacal and gerous. It appears that the more dangerous epoch to men, as cts their mental health, is between the ages of thirty and i; y-five years, and that the liability to Insanity decreases after t age of fifty years. Esquirol, in an elaborate paper quoted by i Prichard in his work on Insanity (p. 168), states that “ the *er men live after attaining maturity, the more obnoxious they I ■ Age of the Patients Admitted*
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