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hence a large total of loss is annually experienced which the above estimates do not include. There are, moreover, certain forms of disease, notably occasioned too by the injurious effects of mental or physical demands upon the sexual peculiarities of young women, which occasion a larger expense for their care than other forms. These are the various types of insanity. Says the author just quoted, * “ Under the power of this disease, the sufferers not only cease to he workers, and to contribute to their own support, and that of their families and the state, but are positive burdens for the cost of their sustenance, and the care necessary for them in their wayward impulsiveness, and uncertainty of conduct. In the most favorable condition, the cost of care and sustenance of the insane is greater than that of the sound in mind; and, with most, the expense is very much greater.” The cost of efforts at the restoration of the insane is an additional item, and a heavy one, beyond the
* Edward Jarvis, M.D., Op. cit. p. 382.