Medicine: Insane Women

Although more men than women were admitted to New York State insane asylums last year, the percentage of new cases was less for women than for men, because—the State Department of Mental Hygiene discovered last week—insane women live younger than do insane men. New York State asylums contain approximately 44,500 inmates. Last year their upkeep cost $16,220,197.87.

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