Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Insanity and Insane Asylums: Report of E. T. Wilkins, M. D., Commissioner in Lunacy, for the State of California, Made to His Excellency H. H. Haight, Governor
Doctor Tuke says: During the forty four years between seventeen hundred and ninety six and eighteen hundred and forty, of those admitted at the Retreat the greater number (one third of the whole) were attacked between twenty and thirty years of age. Each subsequent decennial period 18 marked by a gradually decreasing proportion. Th'us.
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