Here there is a slow decrease in the percentages of the nativeborn citizens with a rapid increase in the percentages of the naturalized citizens. The alien percentages show slow increases until 1912, when there is a sudden drop. This latter is probably explained by the fact that 370 of the aliens deported and nonresidents removed from this State in 1912 never became patients in our State hospitals.

CITIZENSHIP OF READMISSIONS

(See Table 12, page 108)

Table 12 shows the citizenship of readmissions to the State hospitals for the years 1905–12. Of the total readmissions, 5,561, or 64.3 per cent, were citizens by birth; 5, or .1 per cent, were citizens by parentage; 715, or 8.3 per cent, were citizens by naturalization; 1,995, or 23.1 per cent, were aliens; and 367, or 4.2 per cent, were of unascertained citizenship. The percentage of aliens among the readmissions is considerably less than among the first admissions. This corresponds with the nativity of the two clases of admissions. A comparison of the percentages of readmissions of the several years with respect to citizenship shows the following:

Here again is a slight decrease in the percentages of the nativeborn, with increases in those of the naturalized citizens and aliens. As 4,439 aliens were deported or repatriated from this State from 1905 to 1912 the increase in the alien percentage could hardly have been expected.

CITIZENSHIP OF ALL ADMISSIONS

(See Table 13, page 110)

Table 13 gives the citizenship of all admissions for the years 1305-12. Of the total admissions, 28,828, or 55.3 per cent, were citizens by birth; 41, or .1 per cent, were citizens by parentage; 4,942, or 9.4 per cent, were citizens by naturalization; 15,908, or 30.5 per cent, were aliens; and 2,439, or 4.7 per cent, were of unascertained citizenship.

Comparing the percentages shown of the different classes for each of the eight years, we have the following:

Chart D

NATIVITY, PARENTAGE AND CITIZENSHIP OF ALL PATIENTS
ADMITTED TO THE CIVIL STATE HOSPITALS

25

25

0

100

75

50

50

25

25

0

100

Citizenship

0

100

75

75

50

50

25

25

0

0

*Includes unascertained cases

V. NATIVITY AND PARENTAGE OF THE INSANE AND OF THE POPULATION IN NEW YORK STATE NATIVITY OF INSANE COMPARED WITH NATIVITY OF GENERAL

POPULATION

A comparison of the percentages of native and foreign-born among the insane in the hospitals on September 30, 1912, and of the native and foreign-born admissions during the years 190512, and for the year 1910, with the native and foreign-born in the general population of the State as given by the Federal census of 1910, shows that the percentage of foreign-born in the insane population is higher than in the general population. This difference, however, is partially accounted for by the relatively large number of the foreign-born in the age groups in which insanity is most prevalent. The facts are set forth in the following tabulation:

From the above table it appears that the foreign-born in 1910 constituted 30.2 per cent of the entire population of the State, while the foreign-born insane constituted 43.4 per cent of the patients in the State hospitals September 30, 1912; 46.2 per cent

of the first admissions; 35.6 per cent of the readmissions; and 44.5 per cent of all admissions from 1905 to 1912.

If the percentages of the first admissions, of the readmissions and of all admissions for 1910 are used as the basis for comparison with the census figures instead of the corresponding percentages covering the eight years from 1908 to 1912, the result shows but little variation from that above stated, as the respective percentages are practically identical.

The census taken by the federal government as of December 31, 1903, gives the number of foreign-born patients in the New York civil hospitals for the insane as 11,258 or 46.2 per cent of the total. This is 2.8 per cent higher than the percentage of September 30, 1912, as above stated.

Two enumerations taken by New York State in February, 1909, and February, 1912, found the foreign-born in its civil insane hospitals to number 12,253, or 42.9 per cent and 13,163, or 41.9 per cent on the respective dates. The percentage of the first enumeration varies but .5 per cent and of the second 1.5 per cent from the 43.4 above given for September 30, 1912.

COMPARISON OF THE PARENTAGE OF THE INSANE WITH THAT of THE GENERAL WHITE POPULATION

The first of the two following tabulations deals with the parcntage of all admissions to the New York State hospitals whose parentage was ascertained and the second only with the nativeborn admissions whose parentage was ascertained.

Comparison with the white population is necessitated by reason of the inaccessibility, at this time, of census tabulations on the parentage statistics of the entire population. This, however makes but little difference as, according to the U. S. census of 1910 those other than whites numbered but 146,769 in New York State out of a total State population of 9,113,614.

1. Comparison of the parentage of admissions (excluding those of unknown parentage) to the New York State hospitals, 19051912 with that of the general white population of the State.