Gunnison Valley News | 1925-10-01 | Page 2 | Mental Disease Statistics

Mental Disease Statistics That nearly 14 out of every 100 gutienls admitted to hospitals for mental men-tal diseases recover, and that more women are cured than men, is shown by an investigation of all hospitals for mental diseases in the United States which the federal census bureau has just completed. The recovery rate for insanity due to drugs was about 43 for every 300 cases, the highest recovery recov-ery rate of any type of insanity. Next comes alcoholic insanity with "S per cent of all cases curable. Women recover re-cover twice as often as men do from insanity due to physical injuries, but only I!0 women recover from alcoholic insanity to 40 men. The most hopeless hope-less of all types of insanity is general paralysis or paresis, of which only five out of 1,000 recover.