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The authors explored the depressive symptomatology in 9 hospitalized preschool children with suicidal thoughts and behaviors and compared them with 16 suicidal and 16 behavior-disordered outpatient preschoolers. Results indicate that suicidal preschool-age inpatients show significantly more morbid ideas, depressed mood, weepiness, and parental psychopathology than the suicidal and behavior-disordered preschool outpatients. Two of the children did not suppress cortisol post-dexamethasone.

BY 8. P. EOSENTHAL /i NUMBER of writers claim that certain races suffer more /\from the mental diseases than others. Their data are derived from the hospital statistics of the individual states and from the federal statistics. It is my opinion that these statistics are scientifically unsound due to many gross errors and other factors which weight the statistics against certain races. These factors are of sufficient seriousness to invalidate the conclusions of these writers. The present study endeavors:1. To criticize the validity of the present-day statistics on mental diseases. 2. To point out the factors which affect the rates of diseases for the different races. 3. To criticize the findings of some authors who have written on the subject.

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