Mental Hospital Overcrowding: Formula for Change
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A mental hospital responsible for psychiatric illness occurring in a population of 500,000 may have 2,000 inpatients (four beds for 1,000 of the population at risk). There will be a further 8,000 people needing regular psychiatric treatment. It is neither necessary nor desirable that everyone of the 10,000 patients should be in hospital. Not necessary because many people with psychiatric illness can be treated comfortably and pleasantly at home. Not desirable be-
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