TABLE 5. Age Group State and County NUMBER AND PERCENT DISTRIBUTION OF ADMISSIONS TO STATE AND COUNTY MENTAL HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS, AND OUTPATIENT PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES AND OF DISCHARGES FROM GENERAL HOSPITAL INPATIENT PSYCHIATRIC UNITS BY AGE, SEX AND COLOR AND SEX RATIOS BY AGE AND COLOR, UNITED STATES. Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Total Number. Female Male Female 190,644 126,852 49,836 40,310 191,361 247,253 48,468 32,844 114,412 130,325 34,778 39,459 354,411 392,470 67,545 66,337 White Male Nonwhite Female Male Female White Male Nonwhite 1/ Source: Unpublished data, Biometry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health. 2/ Data exclude discharges from Veterans Administration general hospitals. 3/ Source: Statistical Note 67, Biometry Branch, National Institu of Mental Health. 4/ Source: Statistical Note 36, Biometry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health. TABLE 6. PERCENT DISTRIBUTION OF ADMISSIONS 18 YEARS AND OLDER TO STATE, COUNTY AND PRIVATE MENTAL HOSPITALS State and County Mental Hospitals (1969)1/ 1/ Source: Statistical Note 32, Biometry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health. 2/ Source: Statistical Note 35, Biometry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health. 3/ Source: Unpublished data, Biometry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health. TABLE 7. PERCENT DISTRIBUTION OF ADMISSIONS 18 YEARS AND OLDER TO STATE 1/ Source: Statistical Note 34, Biometry Branch, National Institute of 2/ Source: Statistical Note 46, Biometry Branch, National Institute of 3/ Includes persons reporting no education and those reported as having attended special education classes as well as those attending grade school. 4/ Includes persons who attended college or graduate school and those who completed college or graduate school. TABLE 8. PERCENT DISTRIBUTION/OF ADMISSIONS TO STATE AND COUNTY MENTAL HOSPITALS AND TO OUTPATIENT PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES BY SEX AND PREVIOUS PSYCHIATRIC 1/ Percentages shown in each column will generally add to more than 100 percent owing to the fact that some admissions had previous episodes of care in more than one type of care locale. 2/ Source: Statistical Note 53, Biometry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health. 3/ Source: Statistical Note 54, Biometry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health. 4/ Includes facilities for the mentally retarded, day/night facilities, and other types of psychiatric care facilities not shown. * Category represented by five or less sample cases in a survey on which data are based, therefore estimate is not shown because below acceptable limits of reliability. TABLE 9. PERCENT DISTRIBUTION OF ADMISSIONS TO INPATIENT AND TO OUTPATIENT 1/ 2/ NUMBER OF DISCHARGES FROM AND RESIDENT PATIENTS IN VETERANS ADMINISTRATION HOSPITALS BY AGE AND SEX, UNITED STATES 1970 Discharges 2/ Resident Patients 3/ Both Sexes Male Female Both Sexes Male Female Total. 147,420 143,712 3,708 42,735 41,660 1,075 Under 25.. 10,191 9,979 212 1,930 1,890 40 1/ Source: 1970 Annual Report, Administrator of Veterans Affairs, Table 27 2/ Age-sex An age-sex distribution of discharges was not published by the VA. breakdown shown has been estimated based on the age-sex distribution of VA resident patients. 3/ Source: Veterans in Mental Hospitals 1968-1970, Series A, No. 12, National Institute of Mental Health, Tables 1 and 2. |