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

  • Surrey Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1853
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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. M. F. Total. Moral: Grief from death of friends, or other causes 1 8 9 Fright . 2 3 5 Jealousy. 1 1 Disappointed Affection. 1 1 2 Reverse of Fortune . 1 3 4 Losses in Business. 1 — 1 Privations. 1 1 1 Excessive Study . 1 — Anxiety. 3 — 3 Vexation . ] 1 Religious Excitement . 8 8 Desertion of Husband. — 1 1 Infidelity of Husband ... — 1 1 Domestic Quarrels. — 1 ]. Physical : Hereditary disposition. 5 18 23 Intemperance ... 27 20 47 Fever.. 2 r _ 2 Diseased Heart. 1 ] Childbearing. 16 16 Change of Life .. 1 1 Old age, producing Loss of Memory, &c.. — 4 4 Poverty, producing General Debility .... — 9 9 In the following cases no other cause was assigned for the mental disorder than the disease with which it was combined :— Epilepsy . 31 17 48 Paralysis . 28 11 39 Concussion of the Brain ... 1 — 1 Being Deaf and Dumb. 3 1 4 Not ascertained. 60 66 126 Total. 171 189 360