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First Admissions of Native-Born and Immigrants to Psychiatric Hospitals in South-East England 1976

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

G. Dean ,
D. Walsh ,
H. Downing  and
E. Shelley
G. Dean
Affiliation:
The Medico-Social Research Board, 73 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2
D. Walsh
Affiliation:
The Medico-Social Research Board, 73 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2
H. Downing
Affiliation:
The Medico-Social Research Board, 73 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2
E. Shelley
Affiliation:
The Medico-Social Research Board, 73 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2
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Summary

In the past, birthplace has frequently been omitted in completing the Sheet, but in 1976, over 91 per cent of all first admissions to psychiatric hospitals in South-East England were analysed by birthplace, sex, age-group and marital status. First admissions for schizophrenia were five times the expected number for immigrants from New Commonwealth America (the West Indies), four times the expected number for immigrants from New Commonwealth Africa (mostly ethnic Asians) and three times the expected number from India. Immigrants from Pakistan and the remaining New Commonwealth Asian countries did not show a significantly higher than expected number of admissions for schizophrenia, and their first admissions for alcoholic psychosis and alcoholism, psychoneuroses and personality and behaviour disorders were significantly fewer than expected. First admissions for schizophrenia were also significantly more than expected among immigrants from Ireland, Germany and Poland, but not from Italy.

Type
Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 139 , Issue 6 , December 1981 , pp. 506 - 512
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1981 

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