H.—7.

Table XIII.—Causes of Insanity.

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Causes. Auckland. Christchurch. Dunedin (Seaclifl). Hokltika. Nelson. Porirna. Ashburn Wellington. Asylum). Total. M. F. T. M. F. T. M. F. T. M. F. T. M. F. T. 10 1 3 14 M. F. T. M. F. T. M. F. T. M. F. T. 10 1 5 2 7 10 1 4 2 6 10 1 Oil Oil 10 1 0 19 19 Oil 0 1 1 0 6 6 30 46 76 2 13 0 2 2 Oil Oil 5 12 17 42 10 52 19 6 25 Oil Oil 11 2 13 12 3 10 1 16 7 Oil 0 2 2 4 3 7 6 9 15 5 2 7 Oil 10 1 112 26 0 26 0 2 2 0 1 1 0 2 2 0 2 2 Oil 10 1 10 1 Oil 10 1 3 0 3 Oil 5 0 5 3 0 3 7 6 13 6 2 8 Oil 7 9 16 2 13 10 1 8 0 8 4 0 4 10 1 3 0 3 Oil 9 13 22 125 72 197 Abuse of morphia Accident Adolescence Adversity Apoplexy Brain-fever Bright's disease Cerebral disease Child-bearing and puerperal Chlorodyne Chorea Climacteric Congenital and hereditary .. Debility Disappointment .. Dismenorrhoea Disseminated sclerosis Domestic troubles Drink Epilepsy Excitement Fever Financial troubles Fright Gonorrhoea Grief Heart-disease Hysteria Ill-health Influenza Injury Jealousy Locomotor ataxia .. Love-disappointment Masturbation Measles Meningitis Menstruation Mental overstrain and worry Moral depravity Natural causes Nervous depression Neurotic inheritance Opium liabit Organic Over-study Overwork Privation and poverty Previous attack Religion Remorse Senile decay Sexual Shock .. Solitude Sunstroke Surgical operation Syphilis Tuberculosis Worry Unknown 2 02 0 11 12 3 3 03 1 6' 1 Oil 10 1 Oil 0 55 oil 0 55 101 Oil 0 33 0 4 4 0 11 Oil 0 3 3 4 6 10 0 .1 1 oil 7 8 15 oil 9 10 19 oil 202 4 9 13 oil 5 9 14 1 3' 4 Oil oil Oil 6 i' 7 2 0 2 13 4 7 18 2 0 2 Oil 17 8 7 3 10 4 2 6 101 3 0 3 3 0 3 10 1 10 1 8 19 3 2 5 2 13 9 4 13 4 2 6 Oil oil 10 1 101 2 2 4 Oil 10 1 Oil Oil 6 0 6 10 1 2 0 2 Oil Oil 0 22 101 oil 0 2 2 Oil Oil 2 2 4 10 1 10 1 156 10 1 10 1 2 13 Oil 101 0 2 2 2 3 5 Oil 10 1 10 1 10 1 1 i" 2 3 0 3 101 5 0 5 2 02 4 0 4 5 05 Oil 6 0 6 Oil 161 0 2 2 Oil 0 2 2 Oil 10 1 101 101 oil 3 0 3 Oil 2 0 2 101 2 0 2 101 101 6 5 11 10 1 1 i' 2 5 6' 5 12 3 Oil 10 1 112 123 0 22 0 5' 5 4 04 10 1 10 1 3 6' *3 10 1 10 1 10 1 2 0 2 10 1 10 1 2 0 2 10 1 101 2 02 oil 161 3 i' 4 11 11 22 10 4 14 24 15 39 12 0 32 12 3 2 3 5 145 32 19 51 3 6 9 34 20 54 101 Totals .. 44 37 81 46 30 76 60 63 123 36 4 40 10 6 16 75 42 117 75 68 143 9 8 17 355 258 613