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Table XIII. —Principal Assigned Causes of Insanity.

Causes. Heredity Congenital .. Previous attack Puberty and adolescence Climacteric Senility Pregnancy Puerperal state Lactation Mental stress, sudden .. ,, prolonged Privation Solitude Sexual excess Alcohol Drug habit Syphilis Toxaemia Traumatic Organic brain-disease Epilepsy Apoplexy Arterio-sclerosis Sunstroke Chorea .. .. Auckland.: &*£«-_ £Sm" Hokitika, Nelson. Porirua. Tokanui. A8 |j3jH j ■ _ _ J_ M. I". , M. F. | M. F. 31. F. St. F. j M. F. ' M. F. M. F. 11 13 8 6 9 9 3 5 2 3 25 33 .. 2 0 20 12 ! 0 7 | 6 3 I 0 5 2 I) 7 0 I - 10 32 ; 0 3 13 16 162 39 5100 1 0 7 i 0 2 0 9 0 1 0 2:012 II 7 10 8 , 19 II 4 0 3 3 17 8 .. 2 0 0 10 1.. ..'01 0 6 0 1,0501 .. 01 0 1 .. 0 ] .. .. 0 1 ..10201 18 8 2 2 5 0 . . 10 7 5.. 0 4 5 1) . . . . Ill . . 3 (I 10.. 15 I 9 I I 9 I 4 O 0 I 27 8 i .. 0 1.. 13 2 .. | 5 0 . . .. II 0 .. 10 10 5 1 2" -0 l" 0 .. .. 0 1 I'M 10 3 2 19 1)!.. 0 I 5 I I 12 10 . . . . . . 3 2 3 0 Totals M. F. 60 69 32 24 32 59 13 15 0 33 66 37 0 3 0 14 0 3 0 3 3!) 19 8 1 I 0 64 12 0 I 30 2 9 2 I 0 20 16 5 4 3 0 :: :: :: r o :: I ll Cancer Cardiac disease Grave's disease Phthisis 111 health Unknown Not insane Transfers 1 0 0 2; 0 21 .. .. 02 5 5 1(1 . . . . . . 5 (i 10 S .",1 23 ! I 0 0 2 j .. '26 7 1 0 0 (i 11 11 68 40 ! 2 2 4 I , . . 2 0 27 0 2 I 37 4 Totals 135 DO 73 63 89 78 1.4 11 11 17 145 112 27 ! 0 I 13 7 i 507 378