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Table XV.—Principal Assigned Causes of Insanity.

Table XVI.—Showing the Admissions, Readmissions, Discharges, and Deaths from the 1st January, 1876, to the 31st December, 1916.

Table XVII. —Summary of Total Admissions: Percentage of Cases since the Year 1876

Causes. Auckland. «*** gSSJjgJ, Hokitika. Nelson. Porirua. Tokanui. Ashburn Hall. Totals. Heredity Congenital Previous attack Puberty and adolescence Climacteric Senility Pregnancy Puerperal state Lactation Mental stress, sudden .. ,, prolonged Privation Solitude Sexual excess Alcohol .. Drug habit Syphilis Toxasmia Traumatic Organic brain-disease . . Epilepsy Apoplexy Arterio-sclerosis Sunstroke Chorea Cancer Cardiac disease Grave's disoase Phthisis 111 health Unknown Not insane Transfers M. r. 16 21 35 9 10 5 3 5 0 4 30 10 M. F. 2 2 12 7 7 .16 5 5 0 1. 9 II 0 1 M. F. 18 16 11 7 9 19 9 1 0 1.0 16 4 M. F. 0 2 1 0 M. F. 2 4 4 0 1 2 0 I 0 2 I. 4 M. F. 2 14 10 5 3 2 16 li 0 8 14 9 0 I M. F. M. F. 1 4 M. F. 41 63 73 28 30 44 33 18 0 26 78 40 0 2 0 13 0 5 4 1 35 24 1 0 3 4 0 1 63 11 5 2 0 1 3 0 0 4 0 3 0 1 15 9 0 I. 1 0 3 I. 0 6 2 0 8 6 0" 3 ()" I l" 0 0 2 ()"' 2 9" 4 I 0 2 1 0 1 17 5 l" 2 3 1 0" 1 14 0 2 1 4" 0 23" 4 10 1 1 2 4 2 5" 0 7 1 0' 1 17 I 1 0 40 4 1 2 7 2 I I 17 14 6 0 5 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 2 0 8 8 65 43 2 2 50 6 1 0 0 1 5 3 1 0 I 0 I 0 7 3 4 0 2 1 1 0 0 I 2 6 2 2 2 0 3 1 1" 0 0 1. 1 0 1 1 2 0 I 0 44 29 2 3 5 3 2 2 4 2 5 5 15 1.1 I 0 3 1 7' 2 20 0 2" 0 2 I 11 0 1" 0 Totals 1170 98 73 71 107 76 31 7 14 18 154 90 11 0 8 7 568 367

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Males. Females. Both Sexes. recovered telieved lot improved Med .. temaining 37-29 7-45 9-38 31-09 14-79 43-45 9-27 9-79 21-02 16-47 39-78 8-18 9-55 27-02 15-47 100-00 100-00 100-00