Word: ellermann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says Denmark's Modens Ellermann, after examining the records of 231 drunks (all men) in Saint Hans Mental Hospital in Copenhagen. He found that 72 were insane, another 55 were "constitutional psychopaths" with deformed personalities and a lack of moral responsibility. The Saint Hans alcoholics, he reported last week in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, were quarrelsome, they undermined hospital discipline, and 79% relapsed after a short dry period...
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