Insanity Greater Among Men than Among Women
In 1880 the total number of inmates in insane asylums in the United States included 20,635 males and 20,307 females. Thirty years later, the number of male inmates had increased to 98,695, and the number of female inmates to 80,096. The excess of men among admissions in 1910 indicated a still further increase in the proportion, namely, 128 males to 100 females. An analysis of these admissions as to the specific forms of insanity involved, brings to light the interesting fact that if alcoholic psychosis and general paralysis are deducted, the proportion of the sexes is practically the same. The diseases mentioned would seem to be those which, generally, are the result of dissipation. Alcohol and syphilis again established their superiority as man’s most dangerous allied foes.— American Medical Journal.