The authors reviewed 386 in-patients of Seoul Municipal Mental Hospital from May 25 to September 10. 1974.
The results were as follows:
1) Seventy percent of all the patients were schizophrenia; 9 percent, drug dependency: 3.9 percent, alcoholism: 3.6 percent, general paresis. Of schizophrenia, paranoid type was the most frequent, and catatonic and chronic undifferentiated types were the next.
2) The most frequent age group of all the patients was twenties
3) Seventy percent of them were from the Seoul area and the remainders from other provinces.
4) Most of them were chronic: 75 percent of all patients had histories of one or more previous mental hospitalization, 11 percent had histories of hospitalization five times and more.
5) Twelve percent were uneducated, 49 percent were from high school and college.
6) Thirty eight percent of all cases had history of marriage, whereas 66 percent of them were divorced or separated.
7) Socioeconomic status of the cases was relatively lower.
8) In the route of the admission, 47 persent of all the patients were committed by police (compulsary admission). But there is still no medico-legal background in this gield.
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