Administrative Medicine

programme in the United States. Dr. T. P. Rees was the only non-American and it is pleasant to note the respect with which he was received. His description of his work at Warlingham Park Hospital was the basis for the third subject discussed. He also spoke briefly but to the point on mental hospital administration feeling as other speakers did that this is a psychiatric responsibility. Some others thought that a layman trained in administration (not necessarily in hospitals) could be taught to fill the post adequately. Is the book worth reading? At about 3d. a page, no. Although it is beautifully produced, its contents are largely unsatisfactory. It is diffuse, full of irrelevancies, lacking in scientific qualities, the speakers are so parochial, that it can only be recommended on account of the frightening picture it gives of mental hospitals and psychiatry in America and this emerges largely incidental to the