Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1892 — Causes of Jersey Lunacy. [ARTICLE]

Causes of Jersey Lunacy.

At a meeting of the Essex County (N. J.) Council, the lunatic asylum committee reported that the superintendent of the asylum had informed them that the chief cause of lunacy there was the marriage of cousins and the next principal cause was drink.