First report of the Somerset County Asylum, for insane paupers : from the 1st March, when it was opened for patients, to the end of the year, 1848.

  • Tone Vale (Hospital : Cotford, England)
Date:
1849
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Credit: First report of the Somerset County Asylum, for insane paupers : from the 1st March, when it was opened for patients, to the end of the year, 1848. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table VIII. Showing the probable causes of disorder. MORAL. Males. Females Ambition. 3 3 Destitution. 2 1 Disappointment. • • 1 Dissipation. 1 0 e Dread of poverty. 2 « • Fright . 1 5 Grief.. 5 13 Loss of property . 6 5 Love.. 4 3 Religious excitement.... 2 2 Bad education..... 1 0 0 PHYSICAL. Males. Females Accidental Injury. 5 1 Critical period . • 0 3 Disease of Brain . 4 5 Affection of the organ ) of hearing ... j 1 9 9 Fatuity.. 1 0 0 Fever . 4 1 Hereditary disposition .. 23 24 Intemperance. 12 2 Puerperal disease. 0 0 2 Want of rest . 2 • 0 Table IX. Showing the forms of disorder. FORMS OF DISORDER. MALES. FEMALES. TOTAL. Mania- Acute Mania . 0 0 12 Ordinary Mania.. 20 44 64 Periodical Mania . 13 12 25 Dementia or Incoherence. 28 30 58 Melancholia .. 15 16 31 Monomania.. 13 6 19 Moral Insanity . 5 1 6 Congenital Idiocy... 0 1 7 Congenital Imbecility. 9 3 12 Epilepsy .. 17 22 39 General Paralysis. 6 0 • a Delirium Tremens. 2 0 « 2 Delirium. 2 1 3 D