Cheaper Institutional Care
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Expenditure (England and Wales), whose Report was presented to Parliament in November, 1932, " the cost of institutional treatment is the most expensive item in the cost of those health services which provide treatment," and their obvious recommendations are, first, to lessen the expenditure on this form of treatment, and secondly, to provide and promote alternative methods of treatment by the more extended use of clinics and out-patient departments. In the mental deficiency world this would entail developing more fully the policy of " Cheaper Institutional and Increasing Communal Care." But because of
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