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Show ALCOHOL NOT CHIEF CAUSE OF INSANITY Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, Oct. l'J. That alcohol possesses pos-sesses comparatively small Importance as a cause of Insanity Is the conclusion come to by the Inspectors of lunacy In Ireland, Ire-land, whoso report, has Just been IsBiied as a blue nook. Alcoholic addiction, say the Inspectors, occurs In two forms drunkenness and chronic alcoholism. The former Is very prevalont In Ireland, and la much less serious as a cause of Insanity. The Inspectors report an Increase of 261 lunatics between 1SH and 1512, Comparing the number of Insano per 100.000 of population with tho figure In 1880, It Is soon that the figure has more than doubled Itself. In 1SS0 the number under care represented 250 per 1000,000. In 1911 It had Jumped to 58$. ' |