The Straits Settlements medical report.

  • Straits Settlements. Medical Department.
Date:
[1906]
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Credit: The Straits Settlements medical report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE X-a, Lunatic Asylum. Table shewing the Probable Causes, Apparent or Assigned, of the Disorders in the Admissions, Discharges and Deaths of the Year igo6. Admissions. Number of Instances in which a Cause was Assigned. Admissions :—Male. Female. Total. CAUSES. As Predisposing Cause. As Exciting Cause. As Predisposing or exciting Cause, f | Total. * Male. Female. | Total. Male. Female. Total. Male. Female. Total. Male. Female. Total. Moral. Domestic Troubles (including loss of and friends) relatives 2 2 r I 2 I 3 Adverse Circumstances (including anxieties and pecuniary difficulties) business 2 2 2 2 Mental Anxiety and Worry and Overwork ... ... . . . . . • I i I ... 1 Religious Excitement ... ... . . . ... ... ... ... Love Affairs (including seduction) . . . ... Fright and Nervous Shock ... ... ... ... ... . . . ... ... . .. Physical. Intemperance in Drink ... 11 Ii 11 11 Venereal Disease ... 7 i S . . . 7 I 8 Self-abuse ... ... • . . . .. . . . ' ... Sunstroke ... ... . . . ... Accident or Injury ... i .. • i ... . . ■ i 1 Pregnancy ... ... ... ... . . . ... . . . Parturition and the Puerperal State ... . . . . . . ... ... Uterine and Ovarian Disorders ... r I .. ... I 1 Lactation ... ... ... .. . ... . • . Puberty ... . . . ... . .. ... ... .. . Epilepsy ... ... ... 5 ... 5 ... . . . 5 . . • 5 Privation and Starvation . . . ... ... ... ... ... .. . Heart Disease ... I I ... ... i 1 Phthisis ... ... ... 4 ... 4 4 4 Malarial Fever ... 9 ... 9 ... ... 9 9 Typhoid Fever ... ... ... ... . . . Other Bodily Diseases or Disorders ... ... 5 3 8 5 3 8 Previous Attacks 21 3 24- ... ... ... 21 3 24 Old Age 8 I 9 ... ... ... ... ... 8 1 9 Me rphia Habit ... ... ... ... ... ... Hereditary Influences ... ... 4 4 •. • . •> 4 : 4 Congenital Defect ... j . . . ... ... j Indian Hemp Smoking ... . . . . • • ... j Unknown ... j ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 130 22 152 Some of the admissions are credited with more than one cause • therefore, the sum of the “ known and unknown causes exceeds that of the admissions, f Where these could not be distinguished.