Following on from my post about the causes of lunacy given in the 1880s at Yarra Bend, here is a collection of causes from the 1890s.

1890s lunacy causes

The full list is under the cut.

Abdominal Tumour
Accouchement
Alcoholic Excess
Amenorrhoea
Anxiety
Blood on the Brain
Bodily Ailments
Brain Fever at 5 Years of Age
Bright’s Disease
Cancer
Cerebral Softening
Change of Life
Childbirth
Chronic Alcoholism
Climacteric
Cocainism
Confined Lately
Constitutional
Death of a Child
Death of Husband
Death of Sister
Death of Twins
Debility
Desertion of Husband
Disappointment
Disappointment in Love
Disappointment in Obtaining a Situation
Dissipation
Domestic Troubles
Drink
Dropsy
Eclampsia Fits Through Abortion
Epilepsy
Excitement in Mining
Excitable Temperament
A Fall
A Fall from a Veranda
Fall in Childhood
Falls During Infancy
Family Trouble
Father’s Death
Fell Down a Mine When Five Years Old
Fell out of Perambulator
Fever
Fits
Fretting
Fright
Fright at a Fire
Frightened by a Restive Horse
Gout
Grief
Head Injured in Railway Accident Many Years Ago
Hereditary
Hit on the Head with a Hammer
Husband’s Desertion
Hysteria
Ill Health
Illness
Illness of Children
Influenza
Injury to Head
Injury to Skull
Injury to Spine
Intemperance
Intoxicating Liquors
Long Sickness
Loss of Home
Loss of Means
Loss of Money
Loss of Property
Love Affairs
Measles
Menopause
Menstrual Troubles
Mental Trouble
Middle Ear Disease
Miscarriage
Monetary Matters
Money Troubles
Morphinism
Natural Causes
Neuralgia
Not Sufficient Nourishment
Novel Reading
Old Age
Operation on Eye
Ovarian Disturbance
Over Study
Over Suckling
Paralytic Stroke
Parturition
Pecuniary Losses
Physical Weakness
Poisoned Thumb
Poverty
Pregnancy
Quarrel with Sister
Religion
Religious Ideas
Religious Fervour
Sedentary Life
Seduction
Sexual
She lost £700
Shock
Shock at Death of Her Father
Shock by Sudden Death of Husband
Shock from Daughter’s Death
Sickness
Sickness of Husband
Softening of the Brain
Solitude
St Vitus Dance
Study
Sunstroke
Surgical Operation
Thinks That She Was Cheated out of Some Money
Trouble Through Being Out of a Situation
Troubles
Typhoid Fever
Ulcerated Varicose Veins
Unable to Work for Living
Various Miscarriages
Wet Feet
Worry
Worry over Child’s Health
Worry over Losses