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The Relationship between Epilepsy and Tuberculosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

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In their report on this Asylum for 1913, the Lunacy Commissioners state: “Almost 20 per cent. of the patients in each of the Staffordshire asylums are epileptics; this unusually high proportion appears to obtain in each of the Staffordshire asylums, and to be a subject worthy of further inquiry locally.” It is also noteworthy that associated with this high proportion of epileptics is a high tuberculosis death-rate, viz., 25.2 per cent., the average epileptic percentage of the number of patients remaining at the year's end in county and borough asylums in England and Wales being, for 1911, 12.5, while the proportion of tubercular deaths per cent. of deaths from all causes (1902–1911) is 16.6

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