Statistics of the Insane
Table 31.- Nativity of patient population of the
TABLE 32.- Patient population of the State hospitals for the criminal insane, classified according to nativity, census of February 10, 1912
ACCIDENTS and casualties, 170.
Accommodations, additional, 65, 78;
new, needed, 235.
Additional
year, 73.
Admissions, 1897-1912, table 5, 361;
analysis of, 309; 1912 and 1911,
311.
construction during the
Admissions, all, parentage and na-
tivity of, 1912 and 1911, 315.
Advertising for bids, 153.
After-care work, 138.
Age of aliens deported, 213.
Age of first admissions, table 13, 370;
analysis of, 317.
Age of foreign born first admissions
of certain nationalities, table show-
ing, 125.
Age of patients dying in the State
hospitals, 340, 341; table 28, 407;
analysis of, 340.
Alcohol, use of, by first admissions,
1912 and 1911, 329, 330, 394.
Aliens, certified at Ellis Island for
insanity and mental defects, 1902-
1912, insane, cost to the State of
maintaining, 126; chart showing,
191; payment for maintenance of
deportable, 186.
Aliens deported, age of, 213; and non-
residents returned, 1905-1912, 219;
by United States immigration
service, length of residence in
hospitals of, 188; civil condition
of, 214; from various hospitals,
table showing, 211; nativity of,
215; occupation of, 222; race of,
215; sex of, 212.
Amendment to commitment law, 246.
Amendments to immigration law,
70, 188; to insanity law, 70.
Analysis of statistical tables, 302.
Appointment of collection attorney,
70; of Dr. May, 44; of Dr. Ryon,
69; of Dr. Somers, 69; of statis-
tician, 68.
Appropriations. and expenditures,
State Hospital Commission, 5.
Appropriations of 1910-11, 1911-12,
63.
Assistant physicians, salary of, 104.
Autopsies, 340.
Average age at death and average
time in hospitals of patients dying,
table 26, 402; analysis of, 336.
Average purchase price and annual
per capita cost of staple articles,
table giving, 37-39.
BINGHAMTON State Hospital, estab-
lishment of chemical laboratory at,
87; disbursements, 16; receipts, 16;
requests for appropriations, 50; re-
port of visitors to, 257; summary
of report of, 278.
Board moneys and miscellaneous re-
ceipts, 63.
Bond issue, recommended, 65.
Brown, Hon. Goodwin, appearance
before House Committee on Immi-
gration, 131.
Buffalo State Hospital, disburse-
ments, 15; receipts, 14; requests
for appropriations, 50; report of
visitors to, 255; summary of report
of, 276.
Bureau of Deportation, changes in,
117; changes in staff of, 207; im-
provements in, 207; recommenda-
tions of, 207; report of, 182-224;
salaries and expenses, 5; statistical
tables in report of, 209-224.
Butter, purchase of, 97; specifications
for, 151.
CAMPBELL, DR. GEORGE B., appointed
medical examiner, 117.
Capacity of State hospitals, 71.
Causes of death of patients, table 27,
403; analysis of, 336.
Census, September 30, 1912, 301.
Central Islip State Hospital, disburse-
ments, 26; receipts, 26; requests
for appropriations, 56; summary of
report of, 296.
Certification of capacity, September
30, 1912, 72.
Changes in staff, in Bureau of Depor-
tation, 207.
Changes in the form of estimates, 90.
Charity organizations, co-operation
with, 206.
Chart, 1, showing nativity of first ad-
missions and psychoses of first ad-
missions, opp. p. 313; 2, showing
increase of insanity with advancing
age, opp. p. 318; 3, showing num-
ber of first admissions per 100,000
of population in cities, villages and
rural districts, opp. p. 324; 4, com-
parison of frequency of certain psy-
choses in cities, villages and rural
districts, opp. p. 326; 5, showing
family history of first admissions,
opp. p. 328; 6, showing use of alco-
hol by first admissions, opp. p. 330;
7, showing principal causes of in-
sanity among first admissions, opp.
p. 332; 8, comparison of death rates
anong insane and general popula-
tion, opp. p. 339; 9, showing ratios
of insane patients in State hospi-
tals to general population, opp. p.
343; 10, insanity rate among vari-
ous nationalities, opp. p. 347.
Chart, showing number of aliens cer-
tified at Ellis Island, 1902-1912,
191.
Chemical laboratory, establishment
of, at Binghamton State Hospital,
87.
Civil condition of aliens deported, 214.
Citizenship of admissions, table 11,
367; analysis of, 315.
Coal, specifications for, 150.
Collection attorney, report of, 141-
144.
Commitments, emergency, 137.
Commitment papers, revision of, 135.
Commitment, voluntary, 137.
Comparison of the movement of pa-
tients, 1912 and 1911, in the civil
State hospitals, 303; in the private
licensed institutions, 308; in the
State hospitals for the criminal in-
sane, 307.
Comparative statement, of cost of
maintenance, 1911 and 1912, 61; of
total and per capita cost of main-
tenance, table giving, 34-36.
Complaints, 91; of patients, 169.
Constitutional make-up of first admis-
sions, table 21, 396; analysis of,
330.
Construction, additional, during year,
73; and equipment of buildings for
the insane, bond issue recommended
for, 65; and improvements neces-
sary for the year 1913-1914, 45;
planned for the coming year, 73;
work, delay in, 79.
Cooperation with charity organiza-
tions, 206.
Corrosion of piping, 162.
Cost to the State of maintaining in-
sane aliens, 126.
Cotton goods, purchase of, 152.
Creedmoor, institution at, 75, 76.
DARGAN, WILLIAM G., appointed col-
lection attorney, 70.
Dawes, Dr. Spencer L., appointed
commissioner on the alien insane,
Death of patients, causes of, 337;
table 25, 401; analysis of, 334.
Death rates and recovery rates, 1897-
1912, table 6, 362; analysis of, 310.
Death rates, comparison of, of in-
sane and general population, 339.
Decision 120, 184.
Delay in construction work, 79.
Deportations under the federal immi-
gration law, 183.
Directors of clinical psychiatry, sal-
ary of, 103.
Disbursements of State hospitals, for
buildings, improvements, etc., table
of, 32, 33; for maintenance, table
of, 30, 31.
Discharges, 1912 and 1911, 333; of
patients, table 23, 399; analysis of,
333.
Dix, Governor John A., letter to, rela-
tive to officers' salaries, 98; relative
to alien insane, 127.
EDUCATION of the public as to the
causes and prevention of insanity,
241.
Emergency commitments, 137.
Employees, and officers, retirement
fund for, 109.
Employees, in State hospitals, table
of, 43; wages, new schedule of, 106.
Establishment of clinics for mental
and nervous diseases, promoting of,
243.
Estimates, changes in the form of, 90;
for the year 1913-14, 67.
Exhibit, of State hospitals, 88; of
National Committee for Mental Hy-
giene, 243.
Expenditures, 64.
Expenses, of purchasing committee,
table showing, 160; of State Hos-
pital Commission, 5.
FAMILY, definition of, 101.
Family history of first admissions,
table 19, 393; analysis of, 327.
Federal legislation, 188.
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