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Table XIII. —Principal Assigned Causes of Insanity.

Causes. Auckland. Christchurch. Dunedin Wnl .i H i,„ (Seacliff). Hokl t' kft - Nelson. Porirua. Tokanui. Ashburn Hall. Totals. ! Heredity Congenital Previous attack Puberty and adolescence Climacteric Senility Pregnancy Puerperal state Lactation Mental stress— Sudden Prolonged (including war strain) Privation Solitude Sexual excess Masturbation Insomnia Alcohol Drug habit Syphilis Toxaemia Traumatic Post operative .. Organic brain-disease .. Epilepsy Apoplexy Arterio-sclerosis Sunstroke .. Chorea Cancer Cardiac disease Graves' disease Phthisis 111 health Influenza Cerebral haemorrhage Overstudy Unknown Transfers M. F. 12 12 16 13 6 10 1 3 0 6 16 16 M. F. 2 6 4 0 4 17 0 2 0 2 7 4 M. F. | M. F. 14 23 3 1 7 12 J 1 2 7- a \ ... 7 1 i .. os; .. 15 9 I 1 4 M. F. 2 3 0 2 2 0 0 I M. F. 13 24 11 17 10 3 0 4 11 10 0 1 0 8 M. F. M. F. 0 1 2 0 M. If. 33 45 41 53 30 49 18 10 0 21 "53 45 0 1 0 18 0 2 1 2 o" 2 0 1 0 1 0 6 .. 0 1 o" 1 0 1 16 12 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 7 5 13 1 2 0 4 0 0 2 1 2 8 2 2" 0 10 6 0 3 6 0 2 0 10 0 '.'. 1 0 22 13 1. 0 1 0 18 3 0 2 18 2 2 0 l" 0 I 0 0 1 52 36 1 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 42 10 0 2 44 3 2 0 7 0 0 2 0 2 25 11 2 1 4 5 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 10 I 0 5 0 i" 2 4" 4 3 0 '.'. o" 1 6 3 3 1 I 0 0 1 6 3 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 9 15 I 1 1 2 13 6 1 2 3 2 '.'. 110 2 0 1 1 4 5 5 0 1 0 1 1 1 5 8 15 23 1 1 1 3 55 43 45 9 2l' 24 3 0 0 1 2 3 12 17 5 20 0 l" 0 1 0 17" 8 3 2 Totals 129 116 59 65 106 86 32 16 9 8 140 116 7 4 482 411