Insane and feeble-minded in institutions 1910.

  • United States. Bureau of the Census.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Insane and feeble-minded in institutions 1910. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    the other those whose parents were either both foreign born or one foreign born and one a native of the United States. The one class is designated as the native white of native parentage, the other as the native white of foreign or mixed parentage. For something over 10 per cent of the native white insane no in- formation as to parentage was obtained, so that it was necessary to distinguish a third class, the native white of unknown parentage. In the tables giving the ratio of admissions to total population, however, the native white insane of unknown parentage have been appor- tioned between the other two classes. The classification of the institutional insane by race, nativity, and parentage, is presented in Table 28. Table 28 INSANE PER CENT DISTRIBUTION— RACE, NATIVITY, AND PARENTAGE. IN HOSPITALS: 1910. Of the insane in hospitals: 1910. Of the total popula- tion: 1910. Enumer- ated on Jan. 1. Admitted during the year. Enu- mer- ated on Jan. 1. Ad- mitted during the year. 187,791 60,769 100.0 100.0 100.0 White 174,224 56,182 92.8 92.5 88.9 115,402 67,531 28,186 19,685 54,096 4,726 12,910 . 657 39,629 24,534 10,685 4,410 15,523 1,030 4,384 203 61.5 36.0 15.0 10.5 28.8 2.5 6.9 0.3 65.2 40.4 17.6 7.3 25.5 1.7 7.2 0.3 53.8 Foreign ormixedpar Parentage unknown 20.5 14.5 10.7 The following table gives the ratio of admissions from each class of the population according to race, nativity, and parentage. This table is one of those in which the native white insane .of unknown parentage have been distributed between the two classes of known parentage.1 Table 29 RACE, NATIVITY, AND PARENTAGE. All classes. White. Native Native parentage Foreign or mixed parentage. Foreign born Nativity unknown Negro Other colored. Total population: 1910. 91,972.266 81,731,957 68.386.412 49,488,575 18,897,837 13,345,545 9,827.763 412,546 INSANE admitted to hospitals: 1910. Number. 00.Tf.ft 56,182 39.629 27,858 111,771 15,523 1,030 4,384 203 Per 100.000 popula- tion. 66.1 68.7 57.9 56.3 62.3 116.3 44.6 49.2 i In this table the native while insane of unknown parentage have been appor- tioned between the two classes of known parentage. 1 This distribution was made for each sex and age group in each geographic division, the native white of unknown parentage being ap- portioned between the two classes of known parentage according to the relative numbers of each. The totals for the divisions and for the United States were then obtained by adding the age groups. As the result of this process 3,324 whites of unknown parentage were classified as of native parentage and the remainder, 1,086, as of foreign or mixed Darentage. The class of white population having the lowest ratio of admissions to hospitals for the insane is the native white of native parentage. The ratio for the native white of foreign or mixed parentage is inter- mediate between that for the native white of native parentage and that for the foreign-born white, but ia much closer to the former ratio than to the latter. Here again, however, consideration should be given to the effect of the differences in the age composition of the several classes as shown by the following table, which gives the age distribution for the total popula- tion of each class. Table 30 AGE GROUP. All ages.. Under 15 years .. 15 to 24 years ... 25 to 44 years ... 45 to64 years 65 years and over PER CENT DISTRIBUTION OF THE POPULATION: 1910. Native white. Native parentage. 100.0 35.8 19.7 26.2 13.6 4.4 Foreign or mixed parentage. 100.0 38.2 21.6 27.6 11.2 1.4 Foreign- bom white. 100.0 5.7 15.8 44.1 25.4 8.9 Negro. 100.0 37.3 21.3 26.8 11.3 3.0 Of the three classes of whites distinguished in the above table, the native white of foreign or mixed parentage have the largest percentage of children and the smallest percentage of old people—a condition which would tend to make the ratio of insanity lower for this class than for either of the other classes, because, as already noted, there are very few insane among chil- dren and many, relatively, among old people. The influence of the age factor upon the ratio of admissions to hospitals for the insane is, however, eliminated in a comparison by age groups as shown in Table 31, which gives for each race, nativity, and parentage class the number of persons in each age group admitted to hospitals for the insane, together with the ratio per 100,000 population of the same class and age. The ratios are also shown in Diagram 6, on page 38. Table 31 All ages. Under 15 years 15 to 19 years.. 20 to 24 years.. 25 to 29 years.. 30 to 34 years.. 35 to 39 years.. 40 to 44 years.. 45 to 49 years.. 50 to 54 years.. 55 to 59 years.. 60 to 64 years.. 65 years and over Age unknown INSANE ADMITTED TO HOSPITALS: 1910. Native white.i Native parentage. Num- ber. 27,858 Per 100.000 189 1.1 1,272 25.0 2,696 57.6 3,201 79.1 3,241 95.3 3,264 107.2 2,786 113.7 2,478 119.6 2,225 114.1 1,637 109.8 1,441 117.4 3,067 139.3 3G1 Foreign or mixed parentage. Num- ber. 11,771 67 599 1,270 1,548 1,600 1,735 1,415 1,178 972 541 287 488 71 Per 100,000 62.3 0.9 27.2 67.8 100.2 117.7 135.7 137.9 139.8 142.9 142.3 133.9 190.9 Foreign-born white. Num- ber. 15,523 10 320 1,074 1,568 1,777 1,848 1,755 1,605 1,341 982 928 a, 162 163 Per 100,000 116.3 1.3 47.5 75.1 94.3 118.0 131.2 134.6 140.0 145.0 HI.6 147.9 181.9 Negro. Num- ber. 54 320 579 601 508 529 388 316 253 150 163 348 115 Per 100,000 1 In this table the native white insane of unknown parentage have been appor- tioned between the two classes of known parentage.