Forty-second annual report of the County and City of Worcester Lunatic Asylum for the year 1894, and financial statements, 1994-95.
- County and City of Worcester Lunatic Asylum
- Date:
- 1895
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Forty-second annual report of the County and City of Worcester Lunatic Asylum for the year 1894, and financial statements, 1994-95. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![■17 TABLE X. Showing the Probable Causes of the Insanity in the Patients Admitted during the Year J 894. Causes of Insanity. Number of Instances in which each cause wras assigned, f Proportion (per cent), to the total number of Patients ad¬ mitted during the Year. M F T M F T Moral. Domestic Trouble (including loss of relatives and friends) . 8 11 19 8'6 11-3 lO'O Adverse Circumstances (including Business Anxieties and Pecuniary Difficulties). 3 9 12 3-2 9-2 6-3 Mental Anxiety and Worry (not included under the above two heads), and Over-work _ 2 3 5 2-1 3-0 2-6 Religious Excitement . 2 0 2 21 1-0 Love Affairs (including Seduction) . 0 3 3 3-0 1-5 Fright and Nervous Shock. 0 2 2 2-0 10 Physical. Old Age . 1 4 5 10 4-1 2 6 Epilepsy. 15 5 20 16’3 51 10-5 General Paralysis. 6 5 11 6-5 51 5-8 Fevers. 1 0 1 10 0 5 Other Bodily Diseases or Disorders . 2 1 3 2-1 l-o 1-5 Accident or Injury . 2 1 3 2 •] 1 0 1 5 Privation and Starvation. 3 2 5 3-2 2'0 2-6 Over-exertion. 0 0 0 Sunstroke . 0 0 0 Pubertv . 0 0 0 Change of Life.. 0 0 0 Lactation . 0 1 1 1-0 05 Pregnancy . . 0 0 0 Parturition and the Puerperal State. 0 6 6 61 31 Uterine and Ovarian Disorders. 0 0 0 Congenital Defect. 7 3 10 7-6 3-0 5-2 Hereditary Influence. . 13 10 23 14-1 10-3 121 Family Predisposition (not direct Heredity).... 15 28 43 16-3 28-8 227 Intemperance in Drink. 4 5 9 4-3 51 4-7 ,, Sexual . 0 2 2 2*0 10 Venereal Disease . 0 0 0 Self-abuse, Sexual.. 1 0 1 10 0-5 Previous Attacks . 2S 32 60 30-4 32-9 31’7 Other ascertained causes. 0 0 0 Unknown . 12 11 23 13-0 11-3 121 + These are the entire number of instances in which the several causes (either alone or in combination with other causes) were stated to have produced the mental disorder. The aggregate of these totals (including “ Unknown ”), of course, exceeds the whole number of Patients admitted , the excess is owing to the combinations.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30313521_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
