[Sociology of mental diseases in New Caledonia (statistical approach) 1965-1977]

The author has proceeded from a statistical analysis of 2616 records between 1965 and 1977 at Noumea in New Caledonia. Following the nature "multi-ethnics" of the population and the allotment nearly equal to the one between the town and the country, it has been possible to put obviousness some numbers of significant acts, particularly a clear disparity of the rate of psychopathological morbidity taking into consideration the ethnicity, geographical situation, sex, even the period of the year concerning the suicidal actions. - The present paragraph is a summing up of the original work.