Show INSANITY IN NEW YORK Highest Proportion In Small Urban Population New ew York Medical Journal At the close lose of 1906 New York state had insane patients In its pub public p public b blie lic lie hospitals or a proportion of one oneto oneto oneto to about of the population These show a very Ye uneven distribution About seven of or the counties show a proportion proportion proportion tion qt less than UH n one In Jn but these are gre are counties the population Is growing very vez rapidly and the time families families lies 1165 moving in leave Je ve their insane rela relatives rel tires tives in hi the counties from which they move Counties like Washington Es Essex Essex Essex sex and Hamilton show very few in insane Insane insane sane while Albany Rensselaer Dutch Dutchess ess Putnam Oneida Onelda Ontario Yates Seneca Schuyler and Chemung show sho the greatest proportion of cases From Monroe to Chemung there Is a belt of high proportion counties which In the graphic raphie chart on heredity is very striking This chart is somewhat mis misleading misleading misleading leading and is probably to be inter interpreted Interpreted interpreted on the hypothesis that the move movement movement ment of Jf population in this middle area of the state has been more or less stable for a number of years ears and hence capable of analysis while in J 1 larger cities the defective histories from re recent recent recent cent Immigrants cause this factor to tobe tobe tobe be lost sight of The histories are too defective As a rule the highest proportions of mental disturbances disturbance are found in inthe Inthe inthe the small urban populations This is largely due to the fact already noted that the rapid influx Into the large cities tends to keep the proportion down The chart on the increase of insanity ins shows It to have been stead steadily ste c ily ib II going up since 1897 the annual per pr percentage percentage Increase of the insane mount mounting mountIng mounting ing above the percentage increase of population Concerning the factor of oC occupation it Is interesting to note that indoor mechanical workers show a low per percentage p percentage r of mental disease The state statement mont ment that the mentally diseased are re apt to live as long as those of oC sound mind is disproved by b a consideration n of mortality among the insane in the state Serious physical disease Is preY pre prevalent alent among the Insane but deaths from dysentery which have been com corn common cornmon mon In many English Institutions of late years are absent with us and the number of deaths from dis disease disease disease ease in our institutions is not much more above the proportion In the gen general g general ii eral population This speaks well for f r the tile conditions under which the New Ne NC York Y rk state Insane live |