.MjEwNg.Mjk4MDQ

[page 436] Q. Are there many patients in the sick rooms now? A. There are four Q. Are there many in their own rooms sick so as to be confined to their beds? A. No, sir, not permanently. There is hardly any day but that one or more patients he in bed from some temporary sickness, acute sickness. Q. Are not the diseases to which the six are subject, fruitful causes of insanity, or frequent causes of insanity? A. I dont know I do not look upon them as a leading cause of insanity, as far as I have observed. Q. What would you call a leading cause? A. Intemperance. Q. Any other? A. I should say among males perhaps intemperance would be the leading cause. Q. What among women the leading cause? A. Well, it is only a matter of judgement. Q. Yes, I know. But then, we examine you as an expert. A. I should say physical and bodily sickness Q. Are not the causes I have alluded to a very frequent cause? Are they not put down so in the books? A. Not that I am aware of Q. Then you are not aware that they