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These are the causes given for the inerease in the amount of 
- registered insanity which has taken place, and it must at once be 
“Mitted that they do account for alone share of it. Whether 
they account for all is, I think, very dou 
__ A suspicion arises that some of these causes ought, at all events 
a ‘inold and settled countries, before this time to have become in- 
_ Operative. e highest possible extension of lunatic life under 
_ asylum care should long ere this have been reached in England, 
_ and in all parts of Great Britain asylums of every kind have long 
- ‘Since been brought within easy reach of the whole population. 
ae Hig of cases of insanity occurring, or what has” 
_ been ‘annual incidence of fresh cases,” is a better guide 
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