Show I 1 insanity sanity flu in the city london alone Is responsible tor for the manufacture of seventy lunatics a week and no limit can be placed to the increase of th a number stated the president of the psychological cine section of the british medical congress in an address deploring the influence of the large town on the mental condition of its inhabitants the one saving circumstance in the situation Is the natural law which decrees re that town bred folk become st sterile rile after three or four generations of town life so sp complicated is the environment of those who live in the great towns so many and so varied are the calls unon their self control and upon their efforts effort making powers that their men lal tal machinery Is apt to become more complex its parts require nicer con st ruction and adjustment and the whole machine is more apt to get out of gear and to suffer derangement than in the more primitive and less emotional life of eten cien halt half a century ago it Is not over worl that Is the determining cause of the disturbance ot of mental equilibrium but cari carl ing care worry and anxiety to the rich insanity is brought by indulgence in sensuous luxuries to the poor who are at the mercy of every economic crisis whose financial circumstances spell indifferent autri tion overcrowding crowding and unmoral sur soundings roun dings the conditions of modern life bring depression and despair tho the natural result is that they attempt to drown their sorrows in the flowing bowl alcohol Is the cause of one fifth of the insanity in males and of more than a halt half of that in the weal er sex what is then the best remedy for the baneful and unnatural tension of me the nervous system incurred as the in evitable nice rice of the advantages of living in towns how ilow is the mind ot of man to be adjusted to his progress ively complicated environment 9 these are questions which the medical fra eternity has set yet to sole solve |