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    •V. PAST AND PRESENT. 315 INSANITY,

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    Qp Insanity, Like Other Diseases, Change...

    to asy women lums , , the while Charenton eighty .-th , . belongs ree receiv to e both the state sexes , . thirt One y-seven of the _foLinda to imbli the c - and twentysix ancient reliious houseson

    departments tionshospices , ,- or quartiers - cles are hospices . Some g are under , the supervision , of various reliious orders—Les Freres de St . Jean

    exclug sively italieres devote themselves one of the to their branches afflicted of brethren the order ; and of St Les . Vincent Sceurs Hosp many

    , de The Paul , give lums their of the attention state to the the departments insane in general , and the . communes

    lunatics afforded asy , ; by the the quartiers return quoted cles , hosp , accommodation ices lums to above to to above seven above five thousand ten thousand thousand , and . the maisons de santeor private

    thirt Taking y-three the are average men _, to of four a thousand hundred asy admissions and , sixty-seven , five women hundred ; a like and

    former proportion would as regards be as five recoveries hundred , but and not forty as regards -one compared deaths , for to four the .. hundred and nineconsequently there die in lunatic asylums more

    men than women , . It is also found that while women are more proportion subject to attack appearing than men less , is they that live women longer , are and much the reason more for easil the y

    nursed at home than menas , was proved by the census , —the larger number of the unrecognised , lunatics being women . By a late six hundred

    and return fifty , the four number but this of idiots must was be by stated omittin at two g the thousand department of the

    Basses Al -, where three thousand are known to exist . If , however the number pes , stated be correctthe proportion of idiots would

    , be only one in every twelve thousand _Rve hundred of the population moral , — or very preventible far below causes the average , distress in at any the other loss of _coiintry money . , reli Among gious

    enthusiasmpride , jealousy , and disappointed ambition , are deemed , the From most fr the equent mixed incentives condition to of insanit the y population . of America , the Stated without

    statistics of insanity are peculiarly interesting . lation minute or accounted one of attention in twenty for every by -five the to Rve accuracy unsettled millions hundred , the . position may total A be large number of reckoned the proportion inhabitants of at insane fifty , and in thousand , the a greatl popu con y - - ,

    stant inquietude alike excitement brich resulting and produced from b b the y old commercial love and of speculation enterprise added , to , which -and the the is unsettled fevered shared poory young ,

    rican mode s of engage y life and in business more , especiall and p y olitics to the insan earl . All y age these but at also which causes lead the not to Ame onl the y - malad concur in bein producing developed a tendency at a much earlier ity period , than in any other

    country y , —the g age for the greatest liability to attack varying between that In it every is twent from country y the and there thirt lum y , is s instead alone always that of so between calculations much unrecognised thirty can and be forty made insanit . , in y , asy

    •V. Past And Present. 315 Insanity,

    • V . PAST AND PRESENT . 315 INSANITY ,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1861, page 315, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011861/page/27/