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The Causes of Insanity, with Especial Reference to the Correlation of Assigned Factors: A Study of the Returns for 1907
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 February 2018
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The revised scheme of registration put forth by the Medico-Psychological Association three years ago and officially adopted by the Commissioners in Lunacy is a noteworthy attempt to impart greater accuracy and precision to the record of facts relating to the insane. An important feature of this revision was a full and carefully designed schedule, compiled by a special committee, intended to replace the long-established list of the “causes of insanity,” which, whilst doubtless reflecting the knowledge of the middle of last century, lacked scientific precision and had become obsolete. The new schedule aimed at greater definiteness, and being framed on the teachings of experience by those most competent to the task, may well be considered to fairly embrace the whole field of ætiological inquiry. It is with the object of showing what may be learnt from its use that I have ventured to lay before the Association the results of a study of the records of the institutions for the insane in England and Wales during 1907—the first year of the adoption of the revised system—in so far as these refer to patients suffering from their first attack of insanity.
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(1) Precise figures are unavailable; the estimate is based on the ratio of the first attacks to total direct admissions.Google Scholar
(2) This diagram has not been reproduced; the detailed figures are given in Table II.Google Scholar
(3) These mean rates differ from those given above in the text, as in calculating them it was deemed advisable to exclude all the figures assigned to Group C, owing to their comparative paucity.Google Scholar
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