The Social Epidemiology of Mental Disorders
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In practice the coverage of this survey is even more limited for : "All bona fide residents of the State of Texas who were diagnosed as having a psychosis . . . and who sought psychiatric treatment for the first time in their lives during 1951 and 1952, were counted as 'cases' in this survey." People with neuroses or personality disorders were therefore not included. The case-finding procedure (records of all hospitals and of psychiatrists in private practice) deserves some comment; the author supplies it: "There is no doubt that some mentally disordered inhabitants of Texas obtained treatment, medical or otherwise, from other types of practitioners and professional persons during the study period." There is equally no doubt that other mentally disordered inhabitants went without such treatment. The survey is therefore an incidence study confined to hospitalised, out-patient and private patients with psychoses. Nevertheless, among the nearly eight million inhabitants of the second largest of the United States, 11,298 cases came to light giving a crude annual incidence rate of 73.3 per 100,000 total population. The rest of the book considers the factors of age, sex, culture, migration, place of residence, marital state, occupation and education in relation to these cases. The conclusions were that rates
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