4023) Mental Hospital Service Area

Area of Residence of Mental Hospital Patients

of Residence of Mental Hospital Patients. General Register Office, London (H.M.S.O.), 1960. Studies on Medical and Population Subjects No. 16. 15s. 6d. iv+177 pp. The latest volume in this admirable series is a new departure for the General Register Office. From previous reports we have been able to get the collated figures for England and Wales of mental hospital admissions. In this book admis...

The Modern Mental Hospital

as though one were a creature from another world. A further barrage of questions usually follows, and, in a very short time, one realizes how utterly wrong is the conception of the general public in regard to the modern Mental Hospital. Then is the time to realize also that a golden opportunity has been presented for the pleasant disillusionment of a " citizen in error ". To be really effective...

Inside the Mental Hospital

The Mental Hospital

hardly germane to our nationalised Service, since there is discussion of fees?for instance the threat to those working therapeutically with patients when the latter have occasionally to leave the hospital before they are well, because of lack of funds; we, too, have our financial problems however?problems relating to the feelings of the patients whose acceptance of free help may well be an exac...

Service suspension for mental disorders in armed forces draftees in the Penghu area

BACKGROUND It is important to monitor draftees for mental disorders before or at an early stage of military service. The aim of this study was to characterize the draftees who were suspended from service for mental disorders among draftees in a high readiness military zone in the Taiwan Strait. METHOD A total of 152 draftees consulted the outpatient service of the Department of Psychiatry at ...