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Increase of Insanity in Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

D. Hack Tuke
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Extract

I have endeavoured to prepare tables on Irish Lunacy corresponding to those which I have given in my paper∗ on the “Alleged Increase of Insanity in England and Wales.”

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Part I.—The Transactions of the Fifty-Third Annual Meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association, held in Dublin, 12th to 15th June, 1894
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 40 , Issue 171 , October 1894 , pp. 549 - 561
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1894 

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References

∗ “Journal of Mental Science,” April, 1894.Google Scholar
∗ See paper “On the Alleged Increase of Insanity,” op. cit. Google Scholar
∗ First Admissions for ten years ending 1882 amounted to 538, whilst those for the following ten years equalled 826.Google Scholar
∗ Had not the actual admissions increased, it might be fairly argued that the calculation of the proportion of the insane to the enormously lessened population was fallacious. And, indeed, as it is, taken alone this is to a certain extent true, because the insane who remain on hand or are freshly admitted are in part derived from the families of those who have emigrated. This aspect of the question deserves more consideration than it has received.Google Scholar
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