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A statistical study of over two thousand schizophrenic patients hospitalized in India, aged fifteen to forty-five, seventy-five per cent males, revealed the predominance of psychotic disorders in the first or second born. The author speculates that the first or second born may be under greater stress as the carrier of the burden of family tradition.