Health Congress, Leeds

Health Exhibition at Leeds

A Health Exhibition lias been lield at tlie Drill Hall, Leeds, and lias attracted mucli attention. The Public Health Department was especially instructive and included a model hygienic shop counter, fly-proof and ice-cooled, the model cow shed, a smoke-recording apparatus, a demonstration of food values, and a dozen other features conveying lessons to the eye at once. Personal cleanliness, as a...

International Congress on Mental Health

As reported in previous issues of Mental Health, arrangements are being made to hold, under the auspices of the National Association for Mental Health and in co-operation with the International Committee for Mental Hygiene, an International Congress on Mental Health in London in August, 1948. The dates originally fixed were August 12th to 21st, but the Committees responsible for the Child Psych...

International Congress on Mental Health

The last report on the Congress in the November issue of Mental Health dealt with the principles on which it was founded, and the way in which the ground work was being prepared as thoroughly as possible before the opening date; the way in which it was expected that the Preparatory Commissions would work was outlined and the changed dates of the individual Conferences were emphasized. In this r...

Out of area treatments in mental health: the Leeds experience.

Concern has been expressed nationally about the extent and effect of Out of Area Treatments, by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Healthcare Commission, among others (1) (2). The Royal College concluded that “hundreds of millions of pounds are being wasted each year on out of area treatments. Not only does this not make economic sense, but people may be taken away from their families a...

The Royal Sanitary Institute Health Congress, 1951.