Abstract
I. A group of 838 patients in the private practice of a psychiatrist on the Pacific Coast is found to come from homes above the average of the state's population in socio-economic status, and much above the average of the patients sterilized in California state hospitals for mental disease. 2. This is selective and is not to be explained as showing that mental diseases occur more frequently in the intellectually superior part of the population. 3. The private patients are rather younger than an institutional population, and are at ages when marriage and childbirth are likely. 4. Significant differences of age and marriage rate are found between patients with various types of mental diseases. 5. Women outnumber men two to one in the classification of manic-depressive psychoses, but this is not believed to represent a genetic difference in the etiology of the disease. 6. When age is taken into account the private patients are found to have a high marriage rate. 7. The divorce rate is much higher in patients...
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