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The Age-distribution of Schizophrenia and Neurosis: Findings in a National Sample

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

E. H. Hare ,
J. S. Price  and
E. T. O. Slater
E. H. Hare
Affiliation:
Bethlem Royal and The MaudsUy Hospitals, Denmark Hill, London, S.E.5
J. S. Price
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
E. T. O. Slater
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London, S.E.5
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The purpose of the present paper is to draw attention to a remarkable similarity in the age-incidence curves of schizophrenia and neurosis when the sexes are combined. Hare and Price (1969), in a study on the season of birth of schizophrenic patients, found that the age-distribution of cases of schizophrenia (I.C.D. 7th Revision nos. 300, 303) seen for the first time at the Bethlem-Maudsley Hospital during the years 1951–1963 was very similar to that of the cases of neurosis (I.C.D. nos. 310–18) seen there during the same period. However, these cases included out-patients as well as in-patients, were not necessarily first-ever attendances at a psychiatric clinic, and, because they had been referred to a teaching hospital which did not serve a particular geographical area, may have been a somewhat unrepresentative series. For these reasons, their findings (illustrated in Fig. 1 of their paper) might have been no more than a coincidence.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 119 , Issue 551 , October 1971 , pp. 445 - 448
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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