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Table 12 —Principal Assigned Causes of Insanity, 1949

Table 13 —Showing the Admissions, Readmissions, Discharges, and Deaths in Mental Hospitals During the Year 1949 M. F. T. In mental hospitals, Ist January, 1949 .. .. .. .. 4,612 4,220 8,832 M. F. T. Admitted for the first time .. .. .. .. 514 632 1,146 Readmitted . . .. .. .. .. 140 196 336 654 828 1,482 Total under care during the year .. .. .. .. 5,266 5,048 10,314 Discharged and died— Recovered .. .. .. .. .. 202 309 511 Not recovered .. .. . . .. .. 98 122 220 Died .. .. .. .. .. .. 280 269 549 580 700 1,280 (Not including transfers : males, 61 ; females, 100.) Remaining in mental hospitals, 31st December, 1949 .. .. .. 4,686 4,348 9,034 Increase on 31st December, 1948 .. .. .. .. .. 74 128 202 Average number resident during the year .. .. .. 4,389 3,898 8,287

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Causes. Totals. Causes. Totals. M. p. T. M. F. T. Alcohol .. 10 3 13 Organic brain-disease 9 14 23 Arterio-sclerosis 22 33 55 Previous attack 139 196 335 Congenital 115 61 176 Puerperal 27 27 Constitutional 163 235 398 Senility 116 138 254 Drug addiction Spastic paralysis Encephalitis 3 3 Syphilis 7 5 12 Epilepsy 14 10 24 Toxic .. . . 3 6 9 Heredity 7 6 13 Trauma 2 2 III health 7 11 18 Involution 5 33 38 Totals 654 828 1,482 Mental stress 35 47 82