Mental health outcomes before psychotropic medications: a retrospective case series of one state hospital records from 1945 to 1954

Table 1 Patient demographics and diagnosis

Sample demographics
	n	n Died in Hospital	n Discharged alive
Gender
Male	2680	*	*
Female	2929	*	*
Missing	9	*	*
Total	5618	*	*
Age
0-10	6	0	6
11-20	246	12	234
21-30	731	47	684
31-40	856	71	785
41-50	827	116	711
51-60	737	185	552
61-70	737	338	399
71-80	910	680	230
81-90	431	366	65
91-100	27	23	4
Missing	110	23	4
Total	5618	2286	3332
Race
African	133	44	89
Dutch	291	120	171
English	271	148	123
German	520	220	300
Irish	177	78	99
Mixed	3112	924	2188
Negro	207	34	173
Scandinavian	91	31	60
Slavonic	256	66	190
Unknown	199	85	114
Other	341	97	244
Missing	20	9	11
Total	5618	2286	3332
Diagnosis
Psychosis with Cerebral Arteriosclerosis	790	573	217
Schizophrenia Paranoid Type	641	78	563
Senile Psychosis Simple Deterioration	384	319	65
Schizophrenia Catatonic Type	295	16	279
Schizophrenia Hebephrenic Type	174	30	144
Schizophrenia Reaction Paranoid Type	135	13	122
Psychosis with Syphilis Menigo Encephalitis	105	50	55
Schizophrenia Reaction Catatonic Type	91	7	84
Involutional Psychosis Melancholia	83	13	70
Undiagnosed Psychosis	82	30	52
Without Psychosis Chronic Alcoholism	82	0	82
Other	2755	727	2028
Missing	1	0	1
Total	5618	2286	3332

Note. Racial identities reflect categorization and verbiage from the time period, not current reflection of racial and ethnic understanding
*Death while in the hospital by gender was not collected or available

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