First Admissions to Ohio Mental Hospitals for Mental Diseases of the Senium, 1958-61

Mental Health in 1958

The Second Part of the Ministry of Health's Annual Report, "On the State of the Public Health", has now been published. The statistics, given in Part I, are here considered in a wider context, and the chapter devoted to Mental Health begins with an introduction stressing the process of integrating general medicine and psychiatry which has gone on since the introduction of the National Health Se...

Mental illness in the Republic of Ireland--first admissions.

A survey of mental hospitals and mental deficiency institutions in the Birmingham region. I. Mental hospitals.

The problem of providing adequate care and treatment for patients suffering from mental disorder has become more acute in recent years for many reasons, not least amongst them being the increased numbers and longevity of the population in conjunction with their greater willingness to seek early advice and treatment. As a result, mental hospitals are faced with the dilemma of increasing their ad...

Efficiency of Mental Hospitals.

Civilized communities spend much of their resources on the care of the sick. In present-day Britain nearly half the hospital beds are occupied by the mentally ill, so that even a small improvement in the treatment of these patients will be profitable, both in alleviating suffering and in reducing the burden on the community. In the work reported here, we have adopted certain criteria by which t...

New futures for mental health care: the case of Ohio.