Observations on Cases of Dementia Præcox

or " dementia of other forms " according to the prominent symptom observed in each case. The annual report of the Ranchi European Mental Hospital for 1921 shows 11 out of 49 admissions or 22.4 per cent, as cases of dementia precox. In the Punjab hospital in 1921, 29 out of 345 or 8 per cent, were returned under this head. In the report of the mental hospitals in Bengal for the years 1921-23, out of a total of 213 admissions, 41 or 19 per cent, were for dementia precox. In the annual reports of the Asylum, Bangalore (Mysore State) dementia precox has not hitherto been shown in a separate column, but from the notes on cases it is found that nearly 30 per cent, of those admitted during 1923 were of the