Journal of Mental Science (1947) 93: 392-396. doi: 10.1192/bjp.93.391.392
© 1947 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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Neurosis and Religious Affiliation*

Eliot Slater, M.D., F.R.C.P.

* A paper read at a Meeting of the South-Eastern Division of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association on 28 October, 1945, at Banstead Hospital, Surrey

ABSTRACT

Among the admissions to the neuro-psychiatric and the general wards of Sutton Emergency Hospital during the war, the relative proportions of British soldiers of various religious affiliations have been analysed. It is shown that there is an excess of Roman Catholics, Methodists, members of the Salvation Army and Jews in the admissions to the psychiatric wards. The proportion of Jews in the admissions to the psychiatric wards rose consistently throughout the war from 1·3 per cent. to 6·7 per cent. These findings are discussed