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Show Bachelors Are More Prone to Insanity Than Married Men NEW YORK. Bachelors are three times as likely to go insane in-sane as are married men. Divorced Di-vorced men are even more likely to develop mental disease, Drs. James Page and Carney Landis of New York Psychiatric Institute revealed re-vealed In a report recently to the meeting of the New York branch of the American Psychological association. associa-tion. Marriage Is not a "vaccine against mental disease," they warned. But it acts as a sieve; men who are later to need treatment for mental disease are not the ones who readily read-ily find wives and willingly enter into marriage. If they do get married, mar-ried, they are more likely to be weeded out by divorce. Spinsters Found Same. Here are the striking figures presented pre-sented at the meeting by Doctor Page: For every one married man admitted to mental hospitals during the period studied, two widowers were admitted, three single men, and about 4.5 divorced men. For women, the figures are much the same. One married woman to two single women, three divorced women and about 14 widowed. Young people under twenty-five years old were not considered In those figures. |