Fourth annual report : for the year 1898 / Sunderland Borough Asylum.

  • Sunderland Borough Asylum.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Fourth annual report : for the year 1898 / Sunderland Borough Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE X. Showing the probable causes of Insanity in the Patients admitted during the year 1898. (Patients transferred from other Asylums are not included.) CAUSES OF INSANITY. Number of instances in which each cause was assigned. Admissions | ^ N o. of cases 50. F 61. T 111 As predispos¬ ing cause.* As exciting cause. Total.t M F T M F T M F T MORAL. Domestic trouble (including the loss of relatives and friends) ... 2 2 2 4 6 4 4 8 Adverse circumstances (includ- ing business anxieties and pecuniary difficulties) . • • • 3 3 3 3 Mental anxiety and worry (not included under the above two heads), and overwork. 1 1 1 2 3 2 2 4 Religious excitement. 1 1 1 1 Love affairs (including seduction) Fright and nervous shock. i 1 1 1 Solitary Life . PHYSICAL. Intemperance in drink . 19 6 25 19 6 25 „ sexual . Venereal disease. Self abuse (sexual). 1 1 1 1 Over exertion. Sunstroke. . 1 1 1 1 Accident or injury. 3 1 3 3 Pregnancy . 1 1 1 1 Parturition & the puerperal state 2 2 2 2 Lactation. 1 1 1 1 Uterine and ovarian disorders ... Puberty and adolescence . 8 8 16 8 8 16 Change of life. 5 5 5 5 Fevers, Typhoid. 1 1 1 i „ Influenza ... 1 1 1 i „ Scarlet . 1 1 1 i Old age.. 3 2 5 2 2 4 5 4 9 Epilepsy . 4 1 5 4 1 6 Cerebral Disease. 1 1 20 7 27 21 7 28 Other bodily disease or disorders. 1 1 2 2 1 2 3 Previous attacks. 10 17 27 10 17 27 Hereditary influences ascertained (direct or collateral) . 17 12 29 ... • • • 17 12 29 Congenital defect ascertained ... 1 2 3 ... 1 9 W 3 Other ascertained causes . ... Unknown. . . . . . * . . . . . . . . . .. . 13 13 * With reference to the distinction between “predisposing” and “exciting” causes, it must be understood that no single cause is enumerated as both predisposing and exciting in the case of any individual patient. t The figures in the total column represent the entire number of instances in which the several causes (either alone or in combination witlr others) were stated to have produced the mental disorder. The excess of the aggregate of such causes over the number of patients admitted is owing to combinations of cause.