18 AUGUST 1883, Page 3

The statistics of insanity and idiocy in the United States

are very curious, females showing a great many more cases of insanity than males, and males a great many more cases of idiocy than females. Of 91,997 insane people, 44,408 are males, and 47,589 are females ; while of 76,895 idiots, 45,309 are males, and only 31,586 are females. It appears, therefore, that in the United States at all events, the female sex is much more subject to violent mental disease, while the male sex is much more subject to imbecility. Is that true, wo wonder, of insanity and,idiocy in Europe P