Ninth annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

  • Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1862
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Ninth annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table VI.—Assigned Causes of Disease in those admitted. Males. Females. Total. Concussion ... * ... • • » 1 0 1 Fall on Head and previous Illness • i • 1 0 1 „ „ Intemperance « » • 1 0 1 Brain Disease * ... • • • 1 1 2 Spinal Disease and Hysteria 0 ft o 0 1 1 Epilepsy ft ft ft 7 5 12 Paralysis 6 1 • 1 2 3 Intemperance ft ft * 4 <• 1: 5 „ and Loss of Situation ft ft • 1 , 0 1 „ ,, Disappointment ft ft ft 1 0 1 „ „ Previous Attacks ft ft ft' 2 2. 4 j, „ Bad Health • ft • 1 0 1 • „ „ Son’s Enlistment ft ft » 0 1 1 2 J Poverty and Want of Employment ft ft ft 1 2 3 m ( H \ Hereditary ft ft ft 2 1 3 W „ and previous Illness 0 ft ft 1 1 2 pH Previous Illness -< ... ft ft ft 3 4 7 „ ,, and Seduction ft ft ft 0 2 2 Puerperal ... -< ... ft ft ft 0 3 r. 3 Change of Life ■ * ... ft ft ft 0 1 1 General Bad Health and Hysteria ft ft ft 0 1 1 „ „ „ Syphilis ft ft ft 0 1 1 ,, ,, ,, Prostitution... 0 1 1 „ „ „ Anxiety • ft ft 1 1 2 „ „ Poverty ft ft 1 0 t! 1 Effects of Fever ft ft ft 2 0 2 . „ Measles ft ft ft 1 0 1 ,, Railway Accident ft ft ft 1 0 1 Congenital ... . ... ft ft ft 2 4 6 Total Physical ... 36 i 35 71 (This Table Continued in next Page.)