Twenty-first annual report of the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum : December, 1858.

  • Suffolk Lunatic Asylum.
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[1859]
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Credit: Twenty-first annual report of the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum : December, 1858. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. 2. ASCERTAINED AND SUPPOSED CAUSES OF IN- SANITY IN THE 118 PATIENTS ADMITTED DURING THE YEAR 1858. Males. Females. Total. Blows on Head. 1 1 2 Crimean War; Fall of Sebastopol 1 1 Debility (Senile) . 1 4 5 Disappointed Affections . 3 3 Domestic Affliction ... 2 7 9 Epilepsy... 7 2 9 Fever. 1 1 2 Fright ... 2 2 i Grief at Death of Niece .. 1 1 „ Death of Husband ...... ,, Death of Mother and Fa- 2 2 ther's Transportation .. 1 1 „ Death of Children. ^'Hereditary Predisposition (sole 2 2 cause) . 8 11 19 Husbands’ Ill-treatment . 4 4 Idiocy ... 4 1 5 Intemperance .. 3 3 Lupus . 1 1 Masturbation.. 1 1 Natural Malformation . 1 1 2 Paralysis . 1 2 3 Phrenitis . 2 2 Puerperal State. Reduced Circumstances and Desti- 5 5 tution ... 4 9 13 Religion. 5 2 7 Storm at Sea. 1 1 Wife’s Ill-treatment. 1 1 Unknown... .. 2 10 12 Total. 46 72 118 * Hereditary Predisposition traced in 24 cases.