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... Males . 123 21. Occupations of Females . 124 22. Number of Readmissions to State Hospitals • 127 23. Distribution of Certain Psychoses Among Readmissions 129 24. Disposition of Patients by State Hospitals . 134 25. Rate of Recovery and ...
... Males . 123 21. Occupations of Females . 124 22. Number of Readmissions to State Hospitals • 127 23. Distribution of Certain Psychoses Among Readmissions 129 24. Disposition of Patients by State Hospitals . 134 25. Rate of Recovery and ...
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... male patients removed from Blackwell's Island , the latter being retained for women . 2 3 Pauper lunatics in Kings County , as in other counties , had been kept in the poor - house asylum on the county farm at Flatbush . In 1844 the ...
... male patients removed from Blackwell's Island , the latter being retained for women . 2 3 Pauper lunatics in Kings County , as in other counties , had been kept in the poor - house asylum on the county farm at Flatbush . In 1844 the ...
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... male and female , of Bellevue Hospital during a twelve - month period . The writer has had unusual opportunities to observe and work with Jewish psychopathic cases for several years and it is his hope that out of such studies and ...
... male and female , of Bellevue Hospital during a twelve - month period . The writer has had unusual opportunities to observe and work with Jewish psychopathic cases for several years and it is his hope that out of such studies and ...
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... males 3,605 ; females 3,272 ; total 6,877 . Of these 398 males and 402 females , a total of 800 , were Jewish , or 11.0 per cent males and 12.3 per cent females , with a general average of 11.6 per cent . The total state population in ...
... males 3,605 ; females 3,272 ; total 6,877 . Of these 398 males and 402 females , a total of 800 , were Jewish , or 11.0 per cent males and 12.3 per cent females , with a general average of 11.6 per cent . The total state population in ...
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... male and female , of Bellevue Hospital from September 1 , 1917 to August 31 , 1918 , totalled 6,878 , of which 1,127 or 16.38 per cent were Jews . For the following year , be- ginning September 1 , 1918 and ending August 31 , 1919 , the ...
... male and female , of Bellevue Hospital from September 1 , 1917 to August 31 , 1918 , totalled 6,878 , of which 1,127 or 16.38 per cent were Jews . For the following year , be- ginning September 1 , 1918 and ending August 31 , 1919 , the ...
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Page 27 - No person shall be committed to or confined as a patient in any asylum, public or private, or in any institution, home or retreat for the care and treatment of the insane, except upon the certificate of two physicians, under oath, setting forth the insanity of such person.
Page 102 - ... might have been detected by means of a competent medical examination at such time, such person shall pay to the collector of customs of the...
Page 168 - I have not to my knowledge been infected with any venereal disease, or if I have been so infected within five years I have had a laboratory test within that period which shows that I am now free from infection from any such disease.
Page 27 - But no person shall be held in confinement in any such asylum for more than five days, unless within that time such certificate be approved by a judge or justice of a court of record of the county or district in which the alleged lunatic resides, and said judge or justice may institute inquiry and take proofs as to any alleged lunacy before approving or disapproving of such certificate, and said judge or justice may, in his discretion call a jury in each case to determine the question of lunacy.
Page 102 - States or of all forms of law or the assassination of public officials; any alien who within five years after entry becomes a public charge from causes not affirmatively shown to have arisen subsequent to landing...
Page 57 - ... the magistrate must issue a warrant, directed generally to the sheriff of the county, or any constable, marshal, or policeman in the state, reciting the substance of the information and commanding the officer forthwith to arrest the person informed of and bring him before the magistrate.
Page 55 - ... representative of an incorporated society doing charitable or philanthropic work. When the trustees of Bellevue and allied hospitals are thus informed of an apparently insane person, residing in the boroughs of Manhattan or the Bronx...
Page 45 - Commission by the Committee on Mental Hygiene of the State Charities Aid Association, November 1917.
Page 78 - July, nineteen hundred and one, the jurisdiction of the department of public charities of The City of New York over Bellevue Hospital and the Fordham, Harlem and Gouverneur Hospitals and the Emergency Hospital in east Twenty-sixth street...
Page 105 - ... punishable by imprisonment in a state prison not exceeding two years, or by a fine not exceeding three times the value of the property omitted in such bill, or both.