Abstract
A study of mortality among psychiatric patients diagnosed as senile, presenile, and cerebral arteriosclerotic dementia was conducted in Maryland in order to estimate relative death rates. During a 3-yr period, 1802 out of 12,363 subjects admitted to in- and out-patient psychiatric facilities died. The total case-fatality rate was higher in males of both races as compared with females of both races. Age-specific death rates were much higher in the organic group as compared with the functional group. The death rates increased with advancing age. The senile and cerebral arteriosclerotic white males had higher mortality rates than white females, non-white males and non-white females. Patients affected by organic or functional psychoses showed a higher mortality experience than the general population. The possible explanations for this excess mortality are discussed.
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