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Show IPREVENT10N OF i IflSAfW CASES NEW YORK. Dec. 23. The records of American life, and more especially of American hustle, are to be found in the many insane asylums of the country, is the opinion of Dr. Allan Stevens Starr, who addressed the Academy of Medicine here tonight. The crying need of the present day, continued Dr. Starr, I a result that we live too fast, tUat we wvrk tow hard, that we strive too intensely, that we feel too keenly. Moderation, not excess, leads to health. The meeting was called to discuss (he prevention of Insanity, on the theory that many cases now incurable are the result of comparatively trivial causes, which. If tbwlr eequels had boon wisely foreseen, might have been checked before they became Irremediable. Irremedi-able. I Dr. Albert Warren Ferris, president j of the State Lunacy commission, estimated esti-mated that almost half of the cases of insanity under observation in state hospitals were the result of loose living liv-ing and nervous strain. Homer Folks, secretary of the State Charity Aid association, emphasized thl relation between loose living jind insanity a relation, be said. Insufficiently Insuffi-ciently understood and one which It is planned to make plainer to laymen In a special series of articles for general gen-eral distribution. In the last ten years, eald Dr. Ferris, Fer-ris, while the population of the state has Increased 4T.C per cent, the number num-ber of Insane has increased 103.9 per j cent, making a total of 32.C59 mentally deranged persons now in the state. Nearly half of these were of foreign birth. Twenty-eight per cent had 5efn driven mad by alcohol and drugs. Discussing a plan of campaign, secretary sec-retary Folks said that it would be much similar to that employed In tho fight against tuberculosis. oo |