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Show r Mental Disease Patients Increase The Department of Commerce makes the following announcement for the State of Utah concerning results re-sults of. the 1927 census of mental patients in state hospitals. The Utah State Hospital had a. I total of '241 first admissions during the year 1927, as compared with 173 in 1926, and 183 in 1922. These first admissions represent patients received during the year, who had not previously been under treatment in any hospital for mental disease. Such newly admitted patients pa-tients afford the best available measure meas-ure of the number of new cases of '' mental disease which are brought under un-der hospital (Treatment during a given year. The increase in the number of first admissions to the Utah State Hospital between 1922 and 1927 was relatively greater than the growth in the State's population during the same period, as shown by the fact that the first admissions in 1927 numbered 40.2 per 100,000 of population popu-lation as compared with 38.7 in 1922. The extent to which provision has been made for state treatment of mental patients is indicated by the number of patients present in the state hospitals on a given date. In Utah, the number of mental patients under treatment in the state hospital has increased steadily from 342 on January 1,' 1910 to S09 on January 1, 1928; and the ratio of such patients pa-tients per 100,000 of general population popula-tion increased from 91.6 on January 1, 1910 to, .153.5 on January 1, 1928. Of-the first - admissions in Utah during the year 1927, 144 were males, and 97 were femals; and of the patients present on January 1, 192S, 392 were males, and 417 were females. |