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152 INSANITY AMONG T^OMEN.
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In Directing His Attention To The Import...
in relation to the future ; that is to say , with constant reference to left for the , important till practical these as arr duties is ive the which Miss education will F . A . of inevitabl Martineau circumstances y devolve has , unh all upon must il women not failed be ; appy
. at Norwich in her admirable attempt to conduct a school where acquire _"• every g habits irl mig which ht know would how a hereafter house should make be all kept the , and difference should
between a tidy and happy home or the reverse , " but it is to be the hoped attemp this tenrporary tAs bearing failure up will on not the discourage subject of others the production from making of
. insanity , both among men and women , the reader scarcely needs to be reminded of the vast importance of _" a tidy and a happy
home . " Among the moral causes of insanity , domestic troubles writer induced stand prominentl , has by the carefull want y y forward of investi such , gated a and hom have e the , in numberless been ascertained aggravated inst causes admitted ances , or of . even int The the
British attack in American nearly thirteen and Continental thousand cases lums of insanity and has found that o , , asy , in was all domestic the asy trouble lums referred or grief to . , the At most the Asy frequent lum of moral St . cause Yon ,
Dr . Parchapj _> e observed , that , while with males the order of frequency of the causes of mental derangement was : —1 .
Intemperance ; 2 . Reverse of fortune ; 3 . Domestic troubles ; 4 . Loss of friends , it was very different with females ; namely , 1 . Do 4 -
mestic Intemperance troubles . ; This 2 . Loss marked of friends difference ; 3 . between Reverse the of fortune sexes illus ; . - trates another point to which I have adverted , the comparative
immunity enjoyed by women ( by reason of their different habits ) of from alcoholic the injurious stimulants , maddening —an immunity influences which connected may perhaps with the be abuse set
against the unfavorable constitutional circumstances under which less they Among caused labor . the by middle mental and disquietude lower classes and of by society want , . insanit The y miserab is doubt ly
paid , harassed , and often ill-used governess , not unfrequently becomes first a to dyspepsiathen a victim to the constant use
of quack and other prey medicines , and , lastly the subject of melancholia . She is sent to -an lumandunfortunatelybut too often suffers
asy , , , different greatl companions y from habits in having misery and to and tastes mix in . with pauperism Dressmakers totally , but uncongenial again separated may associates by become wholl — y
, , insane from their weary , ill-remunerated mode of obtaining a livelihood . These considerations are calculated to strengthen the
efforts of those who are endeavoring to obtain a much higher remuneration for woman ' s labor , as also to extend its area . The
women latter obj are ect emp , if loyed successful at the , must x _^ rinting ensure press the , the former Post , Offic for e the , or more with
the telegraph , the fewer wili there be to swell the numbers now
152 Insanity Among T^Omen.
152 INSANITY AMONG _T _^ OMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 152, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/8/
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