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Hinsie, L.E. (1940). Mental Disease in Urban Areas: By R. E. L. Faris and H. W. Dunham. (University of Chicago Press, 1939. Pp. xx + 270. Price, $2.50.). Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 21:368.

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(1940). International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 21:368

Mental Disease in Urban Areas: By R. E. L. Faris and H. W. Dunham. (University of Chicago Press, 1939. Pp. xx + 270. Price, $2.50.)

L. E. Hinsie

It has been repeatedly shown that mental disease shows a higher incidence of hospitalization in urban areas than in rural. Evidence from Sweden would indicate that this hospitalization is a function of urban environment since mental disease is distributed with fair uniformity throughout the general population. In any event it is of decided practical importance to know more precisely those forces in urban life which do bring about greater hospitalization.

On the basis of area studies in the city of Chicago the frequency of hospitalized mental disease in each area as it is related to the estimated population of that area has been charted by Professors Faris and Dunham. They report that schizophrenia, alcoholic psychoses and general paresis are most prevalent in the transient, disintegrated, or slum areas of the city. Manic-depressive insanity is fairly uniformly distributed over the city. The mental diseases of old age show a different pattern, being more prevalent in poor or marg

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