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

  • Surrey Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1855
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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. Moral :— Religious Excitement . Poverty, Reverses, Loss of Employment .. Grief .... Anxiety .... .. Disappointed Affection... Fright. .... Family Affairs . Over Study . Imprisonment ... Wife's Misconduct . Desertion of Husband, 4 ; of Paramour, 2 Jealousy, 2 ; Violent Temper, 1 . Fear of Poverty, 1 ; Being Robbed, 1 ; Solitude, 1... Physical:— Hereditary Disposition. Intemperance .».. Falls—Blows on the Head . Disease of the Brain—Malformation .... Fever—Rheumatism—Illness .. Over Exertion . Cholera.. Childbearing. Lactation .•>. Hysteria....... Paralysis was conjoined with Mental Dis¬ ease in ... Epilepsy in. Moral.. . Physical Not ascertained .. Total.. .. M. F. Total. 9 4 13 5 8 13 1 5 6 5 1 6 2 3 5 2 2 4 2 1 3 2 1 3 1 — 1 1 — 1 — 6 6 — 3 3 -— 3 3 30 37 67 3 6 9 17 8 25 7 1 8 2 1 3 4 4 8 1 1 2 1 —— 1 — 11 11 — 2 2 — 1 1 12 7 19 27 7 34 30 37 67 74 49 123 104 86 190 57 82 139 161 168 329