ARE MEN MORE NERVOUS ?

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 128, 1 June 1935, Page 27

ARE MEN MORE NERVOUS ?

Nervous ailmerus are popularly supposed to be the monopoly of women, but according to Mr. Henry Lesser, president of the National Federation of Employees' Approved Societies, men are rapidly becoming more nervous than women. Mr. Lesser declares that among members of employees' approved societies, incapacity among men due to nervous diseases has steadily increased from .99 day per member in 1929 to 1.53 days per member in 1934, while the amount of illness due to similar causes among women has remained almost stationary. Worry about unemployment and insecurity are stated to be the chief contributory causes of nervous breakdown among men. But .another authority denies that the percentage of nervous ailments is greater among men than among women. An official of the Institute of Medical Psychology told a "Daily Mail" reporter that the institute's experience is that women ■ still predominate as nervous cases. "Before 1935, where there were 2000 men patients attending for nervous ailments there were 2700 women. And last year among 1007 new patients, 377 were women while only 253 were men. The rest were children," he, added. The burden of worry about Unemployment and insecurity which lies upon the male bread-winner of a family is no less than the strain .of worry borne by the wife or mother, was the view expressed by another authority. Therefore, women, being less able to stand j the strain of prolonged worry than are men, are prone to give way more I easily to nervous disorders.