LIFE’S MISFORTUNES AND ILLS. (Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, August 14. The various causes of the insanity of the persons admitted to tho mental hospitals of the colony last year are set forth in a table attached to the annual report of the Inspector-Gene-ral of these institutions. “Congenital and heredity” is tho cause assigned in no fewer than 165 cases, and “senility” accounted for 05. In S 4 cases alcoholism is set down as the cause, and 26 were defined as the result of a dissolute life. In 17 cases (two of which were females) syphilis was the cause assigned. Influenza claimed 16 victims, 12 being females. Seventeen males and 19 females were put under restraint because of wlrat
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2159, 15 August 1907, Page 2
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