The Straits Settlements medical report.

  • Straits Settlements. Medical Department.
Date:
[1915]
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Credit: The Straits Settlements medical report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE X-b. Lunatic Asylum. Table showing the Probable Causes, Apparent or Assigned, of the Disorders in the Admissions, Discharges and Deaths of the Year —Continued. Discharges. Number of Instances in which a Cause was Assigned. Discharges :—Male 217. Female 62. Total 279. CAUSES. As Predisposing Cause. As Exciting Cause. As Predisposing or Exciting Cause.* Total, f — Male. Female. Total. Male. Female. Total. Male. Female. Total. Male. Female. Total. Moral. Domestic Troubles (including loss of relatives and friends) 5 I 6 5 1 6 Adverse Circumstances (including business anxieties and pecuniary difficulties) ... ... ... .. ... ... ... .. . ... . . • . . • Mental Anxiety and Worry and Overwork ... ... ... 3 1 4 ... . . . ... 3 1 4 Religious Excitement ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . . • ... . .. ... Love Affairs (including seduction) ... ... ... ... ... . • • . . . ... ... ... Fright and Nervous Shock ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Physical. Intemperance in Drink ... ... ... 42 • • • 42 ■ • • 42 4 # 42 Venereal Disease ... ... ... ... ... 38 8 46 38 8 46 Self-abuse ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Sunstroke ... ... ... ... 1 ... 1 1 ... 1 Accident or lnjury ... ... ... 2 ... 2 2 ... 2 Pregnancy ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Parturition and the Puerperal State ... ... ... ... X 1 ... I I Uterine and Ovarian Disorders ... ... ... ... 2 2 ... 2 2 Lactation ... ... ... ... 1 1 ... 1 I Puberty ... ... ... 3 3 6 3 3 6 Epilepsy ... ... ... ... ... ... 3 2 5 3 2 5 Privation and Starvation ... ... ... 1 ... 1 I ... 1 Heart Disease 8 3 11 ... ... ... 8 3 11 Phthisis ... ... ... 16 6 22 16 6 22 Malarial Fever ... ... ... 27 3 30 27 3 30 Typhoid Fever ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Other Bodily Diseases or Disorders ... • • • ... ... x6 5 21 16 s 21 Previous Attacks 22 6 28 ... ... 22 6 28 Old Age ... 7 8 15 ... ... 7 8 is Opium ... ... ... 4 ... 4 4 ... 4 Hereditary Influences ascertained 6 ... 6 ... ... 6 ... 6 Congenital Defect 13 13 ... ... 13 ... 13 Indian Hemp Smoking ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Unknown ... • • . . » » 1 78 20 98 * Where these could not be distinguished. f Some of the discharges are credited with more than one cause; therefore, the sum of the known” and unknown” causes exceeds that ot the discharges.