4. Italians show a freedom from alcoholic psychoses second only to Hebrews. 5. Italians exceed the native born in the prevalence of epileptic psychoses, infective exhaustive psychoses and dementia praecox.... 7. From the data available, alcoholic psychoses are found to be more prevalent among Slavs than among any other races of the new immigration, but not as prevalent as among the native-born. 8. General paresis is nearly twice as prevalent among Slavs as in the native-born, but not so prevalent as among the Italians. Dementia praecox is more prevalent among the Slavs than among the native-born." The racial representation as shown by statistics of first admissions is fairly constant in New York state, at least, as is shown by the following table of percentages:— _Race_ _1916_ _1917_ _1918_ _1919_ _1920_ African 3.1 3.3 3.9 3.7 3.8 English 7.6 5.7 5.1 4.9 5.1 German 14.3 13.5 12.5 11.7 11.7 Hebrew 12.2 11.6 12.2 11.7 10.5 Irish 19.8 19.5 17.3 16.7 16.5 Italian 6.3 6.9 7.1 8.1 8.5 Magyar .8 .9 1.0 .7 .8 Scandinavian 1.9 2.2 2.2 2.1 2.0 Slavonic 5.7 5.8 5.7 5.4 6.0 Mixed 12.4 16.0 23.6 23.3 24.1 Others 5.7 5.6 4.4 4.9 6.2 Unascertained 10.2 9.0 5.0 6.9 4.8 The 1916 report of the Commission on Mental Diseases shows the following analysis of the nativity of the 34,300 first admissions to the Massachusetts state hospitals covering a period of thirteen years (1904-1916):— _Birthplace_ _Number_ United States 18,757 Africa 7 Armenia 68 Austria 319 Azores 187 Canada 3,315 England 1,359 Finland 250 Germany 486 Greece 129 Ireland 5,033 Italy 719 Nova Scotia 136 Poland 190 Russia 1,139 Scotland 381 Sweden 539 Turkey 100 It should be borne in mind that these statistics represent birthplace and not race. An analysis of the above figures shows that 54.68 per cent were born in the United States and 44.42 per cent in other countries. Of the other countries represented, 3.96 per cent were born in England, 3.32 per cent in Russia, 9.63 in Canada and 14.67 per cent in Ireland. A comparison of the more important psychoses represented by the various races, as reported by the New York State Hospital Commission in 1918, is shown in the following table[75]:—