Dr. I. Aptekman: On statistics and ethiology of general progressive paralysis of people in Smolensk province. Psychiatry, Neurology and Experimental Psychology Review, Nos. 9, 10, 11, 12, 1900

Abstract

The author, in his detailed article, cites observations, embracing the period of time in 11 years from 1888 to 1898, inclusive of 233 paralytics — 182 husbands. and 51 women who used the Smolensk psychiatric hospitalѣ. According to his observations, for every 100 admissions there were 9.84 cases of growing paralysis in men and 4.92 in women. At the same time, for every 100 male paralytics received, absolutely - 27, 97 women; the relative number, for every 100 men, 50 women. The author finds that his data occupy, as it were, an average place between those of other observers.

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