The report of the Medical Superintendent and Director of the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1861
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Credit: The report of the Medical Superintendent and Director of the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ALLEGED CAUSES OF INSANITY IN PATIENTS ADMITTED DURING THE YEAR 1860. Moral. Pecuniary anxieties, losses, and difficulties... M. F. TOTAL. 6 6 12 Domestic unhappiness. 2 10 12 Desertion of Husband.. 2 2 Imprisonment . 1 1 2 Disappointed Attachment .. 2 3 5 Religious Excitement... 6 13 19 Over study ,. i 1 2 Distress of Mind at Death of Relatives . 5 8 13 Benia- present at a post mortem examination... 1 1 ,, ,, Fire... 1 1 Physical. Intemperance and Debauchery. 14 14 Poverty, Want, and Physical Exhaustion . 5 5 10 Epilepsy .•.. 11 7 18 Imperfect Menstruation. 1 1 Chronic Disease of Brain ... 3 1 4 Extensive Ulcers on the Legs . 1 0 1 Injury of Head . 4 1 5 Recent Accouchement. 6 6 Congestion of the Brain. 5 2 7 Congenital ... 5 2 7 Climacteric change. 1 1 Exhaustion from Bodily Disease .. 4 2 6 Fright in a Thunder Storm .. 1 1 Unknown . .. 95 88 183 Total.... 172 161 333 TABLE VIII. FORM OF INSANITY IN PATIENTS ADMITTED DURING 1860. M. F. TOTAL. Mania.. ...... 65 71 136 ,, with Epilepsy. 4 1 5 ,, with General Paralvsis . 5 1 6 j t */ Monomania..... 1 1 Melancholia . 15 37 52 Dementia . 40 30 70 „ with Epilepsy . 18 10 28 ,, with General Paralysis . 15 4 19 Imbecility (including; Congenital) . 5 3 8 „ Senile . 4 3 7 *No symptom of Insanity detectable . 1 1 Total. 172 161 333 * This Patient was discharged in the course of a few weeks after her admission, having manifested no symptom of Insanity, the attack having apparently subsided on the day upon which she was brought to the Asylum.