Show Mental l Disease Strikes All Equally Test Shows Al Albany any N N. Y Foreign born persons in New York state are no nomore nomore more subject to mental disease than are native Americans if all al- al I aI-I l 1 1 t 1 I I J ia is made lui for difference Inage inage in inage age and environment reports Dr Benjamin Malzberg of the N NewYork New ew York State Department of Mental Mental Men Men- j tal Hygiene in the American I Journal of Psychiatry I Although the average annual rates of first admissions to mental hospitals seem to indicate that the cases of mental disease among for for- fOJ eign-born eign are twice as numerous as among native Americans these figures are misleading Dr Malzberg Malzberg Malzberg Malz- Malz berg declares The foreign-born foreign are older on the average than the natives and consequently have had more chance to develop mental dis dis- ease case They are also more concentrated concentrated concentrated con con- diS 1 in cities where mental disease or at least hospitalization i for it is more common I t j I I I I i |