Infant Health Hostels

Subnormality Hostels

a neat alternative label, but at least "longstay hostel" is accurate and not, so far anyway, an emotionally-charged term. The suggestion that this type of hostel should be administered by the local authority welfare department overlooks the responsibilities placed on local health authorities by the Mental Health Act, and in practice the services for the mentally retarded already run by the heal...

Subnormality Hostels

standing about hostels for the subnormal. A hospital's functions are: observation, special examination, treatment (including training) and nursing care. But subnormality hospitals now take well-behaved patients, whose immediate problem is solely that they have been left destitute, through the death or incapacity of parents or guardians. Neither their medical condition nor conduct really warrant...

Hostels in Hospitals

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Psychiatric Halfway Hostels

Miss Brete Huseth's article in June* describes the results of a study which she made in this country during May, 1959 to June, 1960; that is, very early in a transitional period of the mental health services, and we think it is important to try to clarify some of her statements, and to point out some seeming anachronisms; as misconceptions in the field of mental health are only too easily forme...

Agricultural Hostels for Defectives