. Annual report of the Commissioner of Mental Diseases for the year . anking next inorder. Court first admissions show 6 per cent illiterate, while court readmissionshave but 3 per cent in this group. At the other extreme court first admissions have19 per cent of high school education and 3 per cent in the college group, while thereadmissions have 22 per cent of high school grade and 4 per cent in the college 162 117 group. It is apparent that persons of higher educational accomplishments aretending to return to mental hospitals to a greater extent than those of more limitededuca
. Annual report of the Commissioner of Mental Diseases for the year . anking next inorder. Court first admissions show 6 per cent illiterate, while court readmissionshave but 3 per cent in this group. At the other extreme court first admissions have19 per cent of high school education and 3 per cent in the college group, while thereadmissions have 22 per cent of high school grade and 4 per cent in the college 162 117 group. It is apparent that persons of higher educational accomplishments aretending to return to mental hospitals to a greater extent than those of more limitededucational advantages. The other forms of admission show practically these samecharacteristics with the exception that they show higher percentages in the uppereducational levels. All other first admissions are 23 per cent high school grade and5 per cent college grade. All other readmissions are 24 per cent high school educa-tion and 7 per cent of the college level. Again we note the tendency for the read-missions to show higher educational qualifications. F//SST ADM/SSJONS /OJ. ?- ?,Soo- 10,000- 2s,ooo- jqooo- 2So,ooo-t- 2,499 9,999 24,999 49,999 99,$99 249,999 Graph 3. —- Population of Place of Residence of Court First Admissions and Readmissions, 1935: Admission Rates per 100,000 of Same Population Group. Intemperate Use of Alcohol in First Court Admissions andReadmissions Table 36 gives the number and per cent of first regular court admissions andreadmissions classified as intemperate in the use of alcohol, by psychoses. Of thetotal first regular court admissions, (3,444 cases), 651 or per cent were classifiedas being intemperate, per cent for males and per cent for females. We ob-serve that the alcoholic psychoses show 100 per cent of admissions as the more important psychoses, we note that the highest percentages of intem-perate cases are found in the psychoses with syphilitic meningo-encephalitis, cent; with cerebral arterioscl
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