DO WOMEN TEND TO INSANITYI.
An increase of admissions of., hbasf'y wives and domestic servants to'insaM asylums has given rise to the; query whether the monotony of. duties is injurious to the women and may lead to mental leranj*ment. ' \ ■'■ '*i^__W_Wi An observer stites that there, is •. great probability of this being '?.«•',"• must remember, he says. that.the,jirese« - generation of women have received mort education than the past, and live in a aighpr state of which causes a further brain and nervous system, tluis.s tot'"*•-. up nervous energy which requr'.ei ■■ outlet. \ Such persons have literally/notW*"* on which to expend the nervous ;?Mw .'-. ' which nature has bestowed on the*J*': better purposes, and so they table, peevish, and discontented,-SM.'»-»i-'-.. they have the slightest hereditary t* dency to nervous derangement or ""•■■'j -," disorder, the discard between Q"^__l:''i;. : the world may become go great stitute genuine insanity. . ■ . '
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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 17, 20 January 1909, Page 8
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141DO WOMEN TEND TO INSANITYI. Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 17, 20 January 1909, Page 8
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