SCHEDULE OF CAUSES AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS OF INSANITY.
To be returned as Principal Causes, or as Contributory or Associated
Factors, with Symbols for purposes of Tabulation.
HEREDITY (excluding cousins, nieces, nephews, offspring)
A1: Insane Heredity
A2: Epileptic Heredity
A3: Neurotic Heredity - Including only Hysteria, Neurasthenia,
Spasmodic (idiopathic) Asthma and Chorea.
A4: Eccentricity (in marked degree)
A5: Alcoholism
MENTAL INSTABILITY as revealed by
B1: Moral Deficiency
B2: Congenital Mental Deficiency, not amounting to Imbecility
B3: Eccentricity
DEPRIVATION OF SPECIAL SENSE
C1: Smell and Taste (either or both)
C2: Hearing
C3: Sight
CRITICAL PERIODS
D1: Puberty and Adolescence
D2: Climacteric
D3: Senility
CHILD BEARING
E1: Pregnancy
E2: Puerperal state (not septic)
E3: Lactation
MENTAL STRESS
F1: Sudden Mental Stress
F2: Prolonged Mental Stress
PHYSIOLOGICAL DEFECTS AND ERRORS
G1: Malnutrition in early life (signs of Rickets, etc)
G2: Privation and Starvation
G3: Over-exertion (physical)
G4: Masturbation
G5: Sexual excess
TOXIC
H1: Alcohol
H2: Drug habit (morphia, cocaine, etc)
H3: Lead and other poisons
H4: Tuberculosis
H5: Influenza
H6: Puerperal sepsis
H7: Other specific Fevers
H8: Syphilis, acquired
H9: Syphilis, congenital
H10: Other Toxins
All patients believed to have suffered at any time of their life from
syphilis were to be entered under H8 or H9
TRAUMATIC
I1: Injuries
I2: Operations
I3: Sunstroke
DISEASES OF THE NERVOUUS SYSTEM
K1: Lesions of the Brain
K2: Lesions of Spinal Cord and Nerves
K3: Epilepsy
K4: Other defined Neuroses - Limited to Hysteria,
Neurasthenia,
Spasmodic Asthma, Chorea.
K5: Other Neuroses, which occurred in Infancy or Childhood
(limited to Convulsions and Night-terrors)
OTHER BODILY AFFECTIONS
L1 Haemopoietic System (Anaemia, etc)
L2 Cardio-Vascular degeneration
L3 Valvular Heart Disease
L4 Respiratory System (excluding Tuberculosis)
L5 Gastro-intestinal System
L6 Renal and Vesical System
L7 Generative System (excluding Syphilis)
L8 Other General Affections not above included (e.g., Diabetes,
Myxoedema, etc)
M. Instances in which NO PRINCIPAL FACTOR could with certainty
be
assigned, but in which one or more Factors were ascertained, and were
returned as Contributory or Associated
N. NO FACTOR ASSIGNABLE, notwithstanding full history and
observation
O. NO FACTOR ASCERTAINED, history defective
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