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INSANITY , PAST AND PRESENT. 313
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Qp Insanity, Like Other Diseases, Change...
A above gain , reckoning million by four the last hundred census thousand , London was souls believed ; of these to , contain seven
one thousandor one in every 200 , was either an idiot , an imbecile , or a lunatic , Thus according * a larger percentage of insanity to our
. own Another city than curious to any fact other which capital may in be the stated world in . connexion with the the
statistics of townsis that the proportion of suicides to population bears an exact , relation to that of insanity . Immunity from verdict
one insures immunity from the other , so that the , now so may generall not y onl returned y be promp by the ted coroner by mercy ' s inquest , but of also suicides , temporary by justice in Russi . insanit Accord is y , " -
in ing to M . 49 Q , uetelet 182 , of the the average inhabitants number ; in Austria , one in a every one 20 , 900 every ; in France , , one in every in 18 , 000 14 ; in 404 Pennsy in Great lvania Britain , one in
one every in 15 , 875 ; 13 in 5 Prussia 00 ; in , one the Cit every y of Baltimore , ; , one in every , 12500 every in London , one in every 10 , 000 ; and in New York , one in
precedence every , 7 ; , 99 7 of . P A aris gain , we and find as a London proof that in this suicide , as in is the generall other , y takes the
; the consequence frequency of of undue self- excitement murder regularl , it may y be decreases observed as that the in distance Prance
from discreditable the capital - increases eminence . next It is the stand same the here south . London -eastern takes counties the pre
hundred bordering thousand on the . metrop The olis , , where of the the other average parts is ei of ght Eng in land every is average onltwo
about six to every hundred thousand , while in Wales it is y between to A every gain , hundred lunacy in reference and thousand suicide to civilization . . Among , the savage same analogy nations is suicide preserve is d
almost unknown . What would the Red Indians say of that man who killed himself to avoid the lingering death allotted to him as a
brand prisoner of b cowardice y a hostile was tribe affixed ? So on in all earl those y periods who lifted of the their world hand the rites
denied against to their suicides own ; by life the . B Athenian y the Theban , the hand law that , funeral did the deed were was murder increased
to be cut off and buried apart from the body . Self-.. with luxury , and was comparativel enfeebled y unknown b in Greece and and crime Rome
till So earl those y , as mi the ghty sixth empires century became , the Christian y Church profligacy refused to read . the burial service over suicidesor permit their interment in
consecrated ground . Some say we , inherit the practice of this crime from our Scandinavian origin . Among that fierce and warlike race from
it was believed that ail who died a natural death were excluded the Valhalla in Asgardia , literall sword y " The of the hall of those who them died not by
violence" thereforewhen the enemy gave the desired ; blowand , sickness approached , they were fain to seek , it at their own hand . disease
Another fact which connects suicide with other mental
Insanity , Past And Present. 313
INSANITY , PAST AND PRESENT . 313
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1861, page 313, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011861/page/25/
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