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she killed her first husband in order to marry her second. She 

 has thyroid trouble and was at one time in an insane hospital for 

 two months. 



Vernon S. received a dog bite for which he came to the city 

 to take Pasteur treatment. He was noticed to have a staggering 

 walk and tabes was suspected. He was sent to the hospital to 

 secure diagnosis and was found to have hereditary ataxia. His 

 condition grew rapidly worse and was considered hopeless. 



Table XII gives an account of the cases used in this study of 

 the insane classified according to diagnosis. The preponderance 

 of females, especially in the group of psychoses, not true insanity, 

 will be noted. It will also be noticed that the largest number fall 

 under the classification of miscellaneous mental and nervous 

 disorders. This is perhaps mainly due to insufficient diagnosis, 

 as has been mentioned elsewhere. These individuals form the 

 great number of ''border-line" cases seldom cared for institu- 

 tionally, who are unmolested in the community until by some 

 overt act they step over into the realm of the truly insane. 



TABLE XII. THE INSANE— CLASSIFICATION BY DIAGNOSIS 



MALES FEMALES TOTAL 



True insanity 19 28 47 



Psyclioses, not true insanity 11 31 42 



Miscellaneous mental and nervous dis- 

 orders 34 55 89 



Total 64 114 178 



Most of the 47 cases of true insanity in the first group of the 

 insane are white Americans, but there are 2 negro males, 1 Ger- 

 man male, and 3 German females. It is interesting to note that 

 the 4 foreigners all come from Germany, the country noted for 

 its insane. 



TABLE XIII. TRUE INSANITY— CLASSIFICATION BY AGE AND 



SEX 



OVER UNDER 



SIXTEEN SIXTEEN TOTAL 



Males 19 .. 19 



Females 26 2 28 



Total 45 2 47 



Table XIV shows the civil state of these patients. The results 

 of the marriages are 68 children. There are 2 illegitimates 

 recorded. There is little history of these children, but the follow- 

 ing examples are suggestive: ''one epileptic daughter; one son 



