HOUSEKEEPING AND LUNACY

Evening Star, Issue 17793, 15 October 1921, Page 1

HOUSEKEEPING AND LUNACY

WORRIED WIVES. Is housekeeping a prime cause of insanity among women? The Sussex Asylum Visiting Committee, in a report to the Eastbourne Guardians, suggest that the stress of domestic earoa may bo directly responsible for the preponderance of 'women in asylums, a view which is held to be not unworthy of consideration by experts. “ Household work is the hardest kind of labor,” said a famous woman physician to a ‘ Daily Express ’ representative recently. “Add to this tiro constant worry, felt to-day in more homes than ever before, of trying to moot -abnormally heavy expenses with comparatively small resources, and yon have a problem which, might well drive the most capable housekeepers to distraction. “It cannot be doubted that, acute nervous disorders among women frequently arise eololy iron such causes, and actual insanity may, in some cases, only too easily result. “ No doubt, however, there are many ■women in iisylumr, who ought net to bo there They only want a rest from domestic cares an 3 treatment to restore their harassed nerve-i..”