An outbreak of diphtheria in a hospital for the mentally subnormal.

Immunisation of adults during an outbreak of diphtheria.

In an outbreak of infection due to Corynebacterium diphtheriae in a hospital for mentally subnormal adults sera from 211 members of staff were screened for diphtheria antitoxin titres. Of these, 79 (37%) required immunisation, and a low dose preparation (1 LfU of diphtheria and 10 LfU tetanus toxoids) was offered. Of the 64 subjects who accepted a single immunisation and were subsequently retes...

Medical and social needs of patients in hospitals for the mentally subnormal.

In a series of investigations between 1949 and 1958 an assessment was made of the medical, nursing, and social needs of Birmingham hospital patients (Lowe and McKeown, 1949; Garratt, Lowe, and McKeown, 1957, 1958a, b; McKeown, Mackintosh, and Lowe, 1961). The most significant finding was the heterogeneity of patients in each type of hospital-acute, mental, and chronic -and it was suggested that...

Papers and Originals Institutional Care of the Mentally Subnormal

The trend of progressive opinion concerning the hospital care of the mentally subnormal is well expressed in a Ministry of Health Memorandum [(65)104] on Improving the Effectiveness of the Hospital Service for the Mentally Subnormal. It states: "In the absence of complicating conditions, such as severe physical disability or disturbed behaviour, the severely subnormal patient who has been adequ...

Cross Boundary Morbidity and Mortality: A Situation Analysis of Recent 2012 Diphtheria Outbreak in Thailand

Planning Requirements for the Hospital for the Mentally Subnormal

Planning Requirements for the Hospital for the Mentally Subnormal. By Guv Aldis, A.R.I.B.A., A.A., Dipl. {Published by Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd-, 80s.) The architectural ideas developed at Little Plumstead have set the standard for the whole country; and during the last ten years Little Plumstead designs have been copied or have been the prototype of all good new buildings in psychiatric hos...