H.—7

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Table XIII.—Causes of Insanity.

Causes. Auckland ch ristAucKianu. cnurch (SeTctffl" Hokitika. Nelson. Porirua. Wellington. Ashburn Hall (Private Asylum). Total. M. F. T. 2 0 2 4 0 4 20 2 22 M. F. T. M. F. T. M. F. T. M. F. T. 3 14 M. F. T. M. F. T. 5 16 0 4 4 8 19 M. F. T. M. F. T. 10 2 12 16 6 22 74 10 84 10 1 1 0 1 0 16 16 0 1 1 5 24 29 75 50 125 2 0 2 0 2 2 10 1 0 1 1 3 0 8 4 15 19 16 3 19 112 6 0 6 0 1 1 0 2 2 7 6 13 10 1 3 2 5 12 3 0 11 31 3 34 0 11 4 15 0 1 1 1 0 1 10 1 7 0 7 0 11 4 3 7 10 1 10 1 10 1 0 11 1 0 1 17 20 37 2 13 10 1 1 0 1 5 2 7 0 11 0 1 1 54 13 67 0 11 15 6 9 1 10 0 11 3 0 3 112 10 0 10 4 3 7 0 11 1 0 1 8 5 13 58 25 83 Accident Adolescence Alcoholism Apoplexy Brain strain Child-bearing and puerperal Chorea Climacteric Congenital and hereditary .. Constipation Death of husband Developmental Diabetes Dissolute life .. Domestic worry and anxiety Epilepsy Exposure Financial worry Heart disease Hysteria Ill-health Infantile paralysis Influenza Injury to head Love affair Masturbation Meningitis Mental worry Middle-ear disease Nervousness Opi.um-smoking Organic brain-disease Ovarian trouble Overwork Paralysis agitans Phthisis Plumbism Poverty Prenatal trouble Previous attack Privation Progressive muscular atrophy Puberty .. : Religious excitement Scarlatina Seduction Senility .. Sexual excess Shock .. Solitary life Spiritualism Sunstroke Surgical operation Syphilis Traumatic Tumour Typhoid fever Worry Unknown 11 i 12 14 3' 17 5 16 12 2 14 15 2 17 10 1 101 0 7 7 101 0 1 1 0 33 0 3 3 0 2 2 Oil 0 5 5 3 2 5 0 55 23 10 33 0 55 5 6 11 Oil 24 20 44 2 0 2 2 i 8 12 3 5 7' 12 14 5 19 oil 347 101 Oil 0 2 2 3 0 3 0 1 1 2 13 oil 3 14 189 2 0 2 0 2 2 1 0 1 112 101 10 1 2 35 5 0 5 112 101 2 02 Oil 0 2 2 13 4 1 0 1 1 6 1 1 6 1 161 1 6' 1 2 0 2 1 6' 1 2 13 3 3 6 10 1 1 0 1 oil 0 22 3 i' 4 7 i' 8 6 0 6 4 0 4 0 1 1 5 16 0 1 1 4 15 5 0 5 1 0 1 0 l' 1 10 1 5 0 5 2 02 101 0 i' 1 0 r 1 4 0 4 10 1 10 1 10 1 0 2 2 oil 437 2 13 4 3 7 7 3 10 10 1 2 9 11 022 101 1 6' 1 2 0 2 10 1 2 2 4 0 i' 1 8 3 11 oil 14 8 17 4 i' 5 10 0 10 10 1 13 5' 18 4 15 0 1 1 0 2 2 2 02 1 i' 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 Oil 3 0 3 0 i' 1 3 0 3 1 0 1 1 0 1 oil 1 0 1 3 0 3 0 1 1 1 i * 2 202 4 0 4 4 2 6 1 0 1 0 1 1 161 0 3" 3 6 2 8 4 2 6 10 13 23 31 5* 36 4 0 4 101 8 2 10 2 3 5 Totals .. 88 42 130 51 31 82l 79 56 135 61 12 73i 12 5 17 109 38 147 47 45 92 7 8 15, 454 237 691