Abstract
1.1. A comparison was made of the number of cornified cells in 800 vaginal smears from 400 mental hospital patients and 400 noninstitutionalized women. Ages ranged from 50 to 89 years. All women were postmenopausal.2.2. The majority of mental hospital patients showed a significantly larger percentage of cornified cells in their vaginal smears than did the control patients in the same age groups.3.3. The percentage of cornified cells in the vaginal smears from mental hospital patients did not vary with different diagnoses of mental disease.4.4. Treatment with tranquilizing drugs did not appear to affect the content of cornified cells in the vaginal smears of patients.5.5. Vaginal smears from Negro patients in a mental hospital showed a significantly larger percentage of cornified cells than did those from white mental hospital patients in the same age groups.
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