Notes

THE COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF SUICIDE has submitted its latest annual report of the Secretary to Members and the Board of Directors. All the studies which were being made in various institutions at the time of the last annual meeting of the Committee continued until October 1, 1938. At this date the gathering of clinical data at Bellevue Hospital was completed. The case records which have been accumulated there are now being summarized and classified. 1,148 patients were interviewed at Bellevue Hospital in 1936–1937. 27 of these were examined in great detail. During 1937–1938 79 patients were examined but all in detail and 54 were studied more intensively. This makes a total of 1,227 cases covered, of which 81 have been studied in great detail. At the Psychopathic Hospital of the University of Colorado 52 patients were studied by means of the Rohrschach test and 82 patients were studied clinically, a total of 134. Of these 51 had suicidal trends only. Two patients were psychoanalyzed. At McLean Hospital in Boston, 44 suicidal cases were studied and 75 patients with suicidal trends. Two are being psychoanalyzed. At the Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago three analyses were completed and four patients are still under analysis. It might be interesting to compare certain figures here. If a minimum of three-quarters of an hour is counted as the time spent in interviewing each of the 1,148 patients at Bellevue Hospital, the total would amount to 861 hours. On the other hand the number of analytic