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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt:...discrepancy between the comparatively slight liability to insanity exhibited by some nationalities among the immigrants and the known large ratios of the insane in their home countries can hardly be due to the fact that some of them are represented in-the United States by the best of their stock while others send over the least fit. It is significant that insanity is apparently most prevalent in the nationalities who were among the earliest immigrants to this country and contributed the sturdiest of their people. It may therefore be that an explanation of these discrepancies is that conditions of American life are conducive to an increase in insanity. The statistics of the insane for the countries from which most of the recent immigrants came are lacking or are too meager for purposes of comparison. The comparatively primitive condition of some of these peoples may perhaps for the present render them less liable to insanity than others. At least this appears to be true of the immigrants from eastern and southern Europe. In the light of the available information it would be just as fanciful to speculate about the immediate specific causes of insanity in this or that race as it often is in the case of an individual. Table xv, based on Table 7 (page 101), gives the per cent distribution of the foreign born white insane admitted to hospitals in 1904 according to country of birth. The notably higher percentages shown for Italians, Russians, and Poles than in the statistics of 1903 are in perfect keeping with the extensive immigration of these nationalities during recent years. In all respects the figures contained in Table xv corroborate those in Table xiv. Table XV.--PER CENT DISTRIBUTION, BY COUNTRY OF BIRTH, OF FOREIGN BORN WHITE INSANE ADMITTED TO HOSPITALS...