Twenty-ninth annual report of the trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital, at Worcester. October, 1861.

  • State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester.
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1861
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Credit: Twenty-ninth annual report of the trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital, at Worcester. October, 1861. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table No. 5. Supposed Causes of Insanity of Patients admitted into the Hospital, from January, 1833, to September 31, 1861. CAUSES. \# 18«81. Previously. Males. Females. Males. Females. Apoplexy,. 1 2 Asthma, ...... — — 2 — Bronchitis, ..... — — 2 13 Chorea,. — — — 2 Constipation,. — — 2 1 Convulsions, ..... — — 8 . 6 Dysentery, ..... — — 1 2 Dyspepsia, ..... 1 — 6 6 Epilepsy, ...... 13 4 95 39 Eruptive Diseases, .... — — 5 5 Eyes, Disease of, — — 1 — “ Loss of,. —- — 1 — Fever, ...... 5 2 29 37 Ill Health, ...... 28 39 191 563 Influenza, ..... — — 1 5 Insolation, ..... — — 14 — Laryngitis, ..... — — — 1 Nervous Irritation, .... — 2 — 4 Nymphomania, .... — — — 1 Old Age, ...... 3 3 12 5 Otitis, . ... — — 3 — Palsy,. 2 — 40 25 Pneumonia, ..... — — — 1 Rheumatism, ..... — — 3 1 Scrofula,. — — 3 4 Sea-sickness, ..... — _ — 1 Somnambulism, .... — _ — 1 Suppressed Eruption, — — 6 4 Suppressed Ulcer, .... — — 2 3 Tic Douloureux, .... — — — 1 Tumor, ...... — _ _ 1 Whooping Cough, .... — — — 1 Amenorrhoea, ..... — 1 _ 19 Lactation, Excessive, _ _, _ 5 Menorrhagia, ..... _ 9 — 5 Menorrhagia, Suppressed, — 1 — 10 Miscarriage,. — 2 _ 2 Pregnancy,. — — — 5 Puerperal,. — 5 — ]43 Turn of Life, ..... — 5 — 39 Amputation of Leg, .... — — 1 — Bathing in Cold Water, . — — 2 2 Drinking Cold Water, — — 1 — Exposure to Cold, .... — — 6 — Injury by Falling, &c., 9 3