Data are presented regarding the psychiatric patients seen in the Casualty-Emergency Service of the Winnipeg General Hospital during a fifteen-day period, and this group is compared with the general casualty intake, and to a lesser extent with the population of the area served.
The psychiatric patients had a higher proportion of:
1) admissions to hospital
2) females
3) persons aged 40 - 49
4) persons divorced or legally separated
5) newcomers to the Province
6) visits between 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.
In the psychiatric group there was a preponderance of women among those diagnosed as neurotic and of men among those diagnosed as alcoholic. These findings are discussed and compared with those in the literature.
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