CAUSES OF INSANITY.
One of the most interesting features of the mental hospitals report is a table giving the principal assigned causes of insanity. Alcohol is responsible for more insanity than any other agency, 82 males and 19 females having been sent to the mental hospitals through alcoholism, while syphilis was responsible for 32 males and 4 females. There was one case frdm Auckland of a love affair. Singularly enough Auckland was also responsible for the only case of insanity from what is vaguely described as "occultism." Secret vice was the cause of five cases, and the solitary life claimed six victims —four males and two females. Sixty males and 65 females succumbed to hereditary, and 30 males and 25 females to congenital, mental deficiency, and it was a significant sign of the times that prolonged mental stress was the cause in the cases of 19 males and 30 females.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 22 September 1913, Page 4
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150CAUSES OF INSANITY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 22 September 1913, Page 4
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