Causes and number of people admitted:

• miasmatic fevers: 25
• indigestion: 14
• epilepsy: 12
• loss of property: 12
• religious anxiety: 11
• disappointed love: 10
• masturbation: 8
• puerperal: 8
• domestic unhappiness: 4
• spiritual rappings: 4
• intemperance: 4
• intense study: 3
• unkind treatment of relatives: 3
• loss of children: 3
• blows on the head: 2
• loss of wife: 2
• excessive loss of blood: 2
• sudden cessation of bleeding from the nose: 1
• paralysis: 1
• concussion from explosion of steamboat: 1
• jealousy: 1
• shipwreck: 1
• fear of being killed by a mob: 1
• loss of husband: 1
• jaundice: 1
• scurvy: 1
• slander: 1
• unknown: 56