REPORTS FROM THE SECTIONS. 36 
would particularly direct your attention to the difference in 
he percentage among the males and females. The male deaths 
; a percentage of 10- 78, the females of 3°71 only. I find on 
ining the returns from British and other asylums that the 
rate is almost invariably less among the women, and this is 
be mainly accounted for by the fact that apoplexy and paralysis, 
destructive f forms of brain disease, epilepsy, and general 
talysis, which go largely to swell the death rate, are much less 
mon among women than men. Thes e: Lees I may 
passing, compare favourably with the death r in Engli 
a which for the last nineteen years ave i : 
‘he following tables, drawn according to the form adopted by 
co-Psychological an for asylum use, gives the 
s of death in the 431 ¢ 
Total for 10 years nak to 1878 inclusive. 
Causes of Death. Male. |Female.| Total. 
Cerebral or Spinal Diseases. 
y and paralysis 32 9 41 
sy and — 38 ° = 
7 67 
and pitas. exhaustion or decay ......... 27 16 43 
mation and other diseases of brain, softening, 
urs, &e, Nea 53 ‘ of 
teehee eee 1 4 
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msumption a 
of So and blood-vessels a 
Abdominal Disease 
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of bowels 
tion em 1S peneg gna of stomach, intestines, 
08 SO6 bec ces 
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