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than one per cent, of the total Jewish admissions. Notwithstanding 

 the fact that the Jews are thus almost entirely uninfluenced by the 

 greatest of the acquired or accidental causes of insanity, their total 

 number of insane does not fall to the level of the average for the general 

 population. Thus out of 1,762 admissions to the Manhattan State 

 Hospital for 1910-11, there were 455 Jews; that is to say, they made 

 25.9 per cent, of the total admissions. This is nine tenths of one per 

 cent, more than their usually estimated relation to the general popula- 

 tion of the community from which they were recruited. 



Reliable data from foreign countries serves to show that, notwith- 

 standing his freedom from alcohol, the Jew still contributes more than 

 his share to the general insane population. Thus in Germany for the 

 period 1890-1902 there were to the 100,000 of population, an annual 

 average number of 67 insane and feeble-minded Jews as against 49 of 

 the non-Jewish population. The congenital idiocies and congenital 

 imbecilities showed an especial disproportion against the Jews, they 

 having 4.51 as compared to 2.75 among the non-Jews. 10 That the 

 proportion of the constitutionally inferior is especially large is shown 

 by a reference to the subjoined table, which is taken from De Fursac's 

 and Eosanoffs latest work on psychiatry. It will be noted that not- 

 withstanding the fact that they have practically none of the psychoses 

 which are due to alcohol, the Jews come second in point of number 

 of admissions. 



In this connection the percentage of the Irish admitted for alco- 



Table of Mental Defectives among Immigrants (Idiots, Imbeciles, Feeble- 

 minded). Annual Eeport Commissioner General of Immigration, 1911. 



Rejected for the Year 1911 



Finnish 



Russian 



Spanish 



Magyar 



Greek 



Dutch and Flemish. 



Scandinavian 



Bohemian (Czech).., 



Ruthenian 



Pole 



Slovak 



Italian (North) 



Croatian, Slovenian . 



Italian (South) 



English 



German 



Scotch 



Irish 



Hebrew 



French 



Maurice Fishberg, ' ' The Jews : A Study of Race and Environment. ' ' 



