102 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
PHTHISIS. SUMMARY OP EXMINSTER, 1861-70. 
Total Parish. 
Asylum. 
Parish, excluding 
Asylum. 
M. 
F. 
M. 
F. 
M. 
F. 
Total Mean Population . 
865 
986 
270 
398 
595 
588 
Total Deaths of Phthisis 
97 
60 
80 
23 
17 
Percentage 
9-59 
9.82 
22.22 
20.IO 
3.86 
2.86 
Mean Percentage . 
9.72 
20.96 
3.38 
The Table will be a fact toward the rate or law of Phthisis and 
the Insane. The tendency to Phthisis in the Insane has been 
pointed out by Dr. Saunders (Report of Devon County Asylum, 
1873), and by other authors. Not only have the importance of 
hygienic measures, such as large cubical space in wards, been in- 
sisted on (Report D. C. A., 1863), but the profound nature or 
form of Phthisis, as involved with " nerve supply/' has been 
recognized. (Report D. C. A., 1873.) 
The relation of animal type in man, to Phthisis, is seen in the 
very different death-rate of Prisoners (see Table of Prisons) to that 
of those who become Insane. 
The study becomes one of natural history in its widest sense, 
involving all physical relations, and the deeper " form " and laws, 
of the evolving and sustained series of vital Being and animals. 
