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Show Increase of Lunacy. A famous HrltUh physician. Dr. Forbes Wlnslow, collected figures that In all civilized countries lunacy was lartely on the Increase. I "la 1859 there was one lunatic In I every &36 of the population. Today there Is one In every 175. In France 1 63 years ago there wss one Insane per- ' een In every 750 cf the population. ' Today there le one In every ioQ." ' This Increase be attributed to aJ-cohol. aJ-cohol. social competition and strain, heredity, and Injudicious marriages, adding that If the present rate of the i growth of lunacy continued we should have more Insane than sane la tl world 800 years hence. |