Some Administrative Aspects of Suicide in the Mental Hospital

This article studies suicide in U.S. mental hospital by tabulating various factors, as well as by analysis of 18 patients who committed suicide in a Michigan hospital from 1929-1941. Tables provide data on age, time of day, seasonal incidence, diagnosis & method. Discusses the need for an awareness of the warning signs that often appear prior to suicide & a review of the physical setting which can sometimes enable suicide in mental hospitals.