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system". Is/ September. The Daily Telegraph reported a statement by Dr. E. G. Gray that the electron microscope could explore the structure of the brain and, in the end, reveal the significant changes underlying conditions such as psychosis, mental deficiency and epilepsy. 4th September. The opening in the Portobello Road of the second "worry clinic" for teenagers run by the Youth Studies and R...

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May 14th: Mr. Tom Driberg asked ttle Minister of Health if, in view of the social and economic disabilities suffered by the children of those who have been Certified insane, he will take steps to Provide for the formal annulment of ?Uch certification when found to have een based on an erroneous diagnosis. The Minister refused, but following a !^PPlementary question from Mr. uriberg said that if...

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21th April. The Minister of Health, replying to a question from Lord Balniel, stated that the total non-domestic staff for local authority mental health hostels had trebled in the last two years and that most staff, when appointed, had already had some relevant training or experience. He said further that one special training course had been held by the N.A.M.H., and that he understood others t...

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description by "an eminent psychiatrist" of his patients and working methods. The articles were written by Douglas Keay, a journalist. 8th September. The main article in The Sunday Times?"Mending Broken Minds" by Dr. Alfred Byrne-?was devoted to a survey of provisions for the rehabilitation of mental patients after discharge from hospital. Letters from Mary Adams and J. Mallory Wober of the N.A...