Migration Differentials in Mental Disease: State Patterns in First Admissions to Mental Hospitals for All Disorders and for Schizophrenia, New York, Ohio and California, as of 1950

Abstract

Data are reported on the relative rates of first admissions to mental hospitals in New York, Ohio, and California, as of 1950, by sex, color, and nativity. Admissions are broken down into schizophrenia and a second all inclusive group of "all disorders". Color or race is more important than migration status in a state-wide pattern of differentials in mental disease. Migration differentials are more consistent among native whites ona state of birth basis of the patients in the "all disorders" group than when native whites are compared with foreign born. When only schizophrenic patients are considered, the difference is most marked between nativity and color differential.