Statistics Concerning Insanity

Statistics of Insanity

Hereditary predisposition existed in Intemperance Pregnancy, child-bearing, abortion, lactation, &c Disappointments, reverses, embarrassments, losses, or privations Religious excitement Grief Disappointed affection Anxiety, vexation 43 Terror 39 Blows on tlie head, falls 23 Epilepsy 23 Paralysis 8 Causes of more rare occurrence 219 Of the remaining cases for which no cause was assigned, the dis...

Opinions concerning the insanity plea and criminality among mental patients.

Although numerous discourses relating to the insanity plea are to be found in the psychiatric and legal literature, there are but few empirical studies that address even the fundamental issue of its incidence and success rate.! Similarly, to the authors' knowledge, there is but one study concerned with the attitudes of individuals toward the insanity plea; that study was a survey made of lawyer...

Concerning the Statistics of Classical Systems

[1] We first define the phase volume of a system as the volume contained within the energy surface in the phase space and define its phase density as its derivative with respective to energy. Because of the ergodic hypothesis, the system phase density can be obtained as the convolution product of the phase densities of the individual parts; and these can again, when the energy of the parts can ...

Statistics Concerning Consumption and Other Preventable Diseases

Now that the crusade against consumption is to be carried on in Gloucester, Somerset, and Wilts, it appears desirable to bring together some figures which may be of service in evoking local interest by comparing the death returns for these three counties with those for England and Wales. The latest returns available are for the year 1898, in the sixty-first Annual Report the Registrar-General, ...

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