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Table VII.—Principal Assigned Causes of Insanity, 1947

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Causes. Avondale. Kings eat. Raventhorpe. Tokanui. Levin Farm. Porirua. Alcohol Amaurosis Arterio-sclerosis Cerebral tumour Chorea Congenital Climacteric Constitutional Drug addiction Encephalitis Epilepsy Exhaustion Heredity 111 health Involution Mental stress Organic brain-disease Previous attack Puberty or adolescence Puerperal Senility Syphilis Toxic —exhaustive psychosis, &c. Transfers Totals M. F. T. 4 .. 4 .. 1 1 8 12 20 17 i6 27 2 2 48 28 76 7 7 .. 1 1 1 1 6 15 21 28 1 29 26 41 67 .. 2 2 .. 3 3 13 38 51 6 3 9 3 2 5 11 9 20 M. F. T. 1 .. 1 1 1 7 '6 16 8 i8 26 1 .. 1 2 '2 4 .. i 1 .. i 1 7 io 17 .. '2 2 5 7 12 7 i.7 24 M. F. T. 2 - 2 3 27 30 M. F. T. 1 . . 1 8 6 14 29 32 61 2 'i 3 .. '4 4 .. "i 1 18 12 30 1 .. 1 8 2 10 3 14 M. F. T. 37 li 54 10 22 32 M. F. T. 3 3 7 il 18 11 'il 22 2 2 55 62 117 2 2 3 "3 6 1 .. 1 2 4 6 8 15 23 9 3 12 42 59 101 5 5 27 ' 49 76 4 15 11 '42 53 178 168 346 39 67 106 3 29 32 70 59 129 47 39 86 185 267 452 Causes. Nelson. Sea view. Sunnyside. Seacliff. Ashburn Hall (Private Mental Hospital). Totals. Alcohol Amaurosis Arterio-sclerosis Cerebral tumour Choera Congenital Climacteric Constitutional Drug addiction Encephalitis Epilepsy Exhaustion Heredity 111 health Involution Mental stress Organic brain-disease Previous attack Puberty or adolescenee Puerperal Senility Syphilis Toxic —exhaustive psychosis, &c. Transfers Totals M. F. T. 5 '2 7 8 5 13 .. 3 3 16 7 .. '2 2 3 2 5 4 *4 8 .. *3 3 .. 1 1 5 "(5 11 4 !. 4 M. F. T. 1 .. 1 1 !! 1 4 '3 7 1 i 2 1 !! 1 4 15 5 '2 7 3 i.6 19 M. F. T. 9 8 17 .. i 1 34 23 57 22 29 51 1 '3 4 1 " 1 3 4 7 4 12 16 16 18 34 .. 4 4 23 27 50 1 .. 1 6 25 31 M. F. T. 4 2 6 3 ~4 7 15 12 27 1 !! 1 2 13 .. i 1 9 9 i.8 27 45 21 24 45 .. i 1 15 22 37 3 .. 3 4 '3 7 M. F. T. 1 .. 1 3 '4 7 .. i 1 .. 1 1 1 '4 5 3 '3 6 1 !! 1 M. F. T. 15 2 17 1 1 29 33 62 1 . . 1 1 1 126 85 211 7 7 185 196 381 1 .. 1 1 .. 1 17 10 27 1 1 7 6 13 12 3 7 15 22 40 74 114 37 4 41 117 160 277 3 3 16 16 114 166 280 15 4 19 11 4 15 63 162 225 30 34 64 20 23 43 120 154 274 86 99 185 9 13 22 787 952 1,739