Mental Disease on the Wane
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Increase in facilities Although our rate of mental illness has not gone up, our network of special hospitals and outpatient clinics has grown considerably. For example, the number of facilities increased from 8,700 in 1955 and 9,865 in 1957 to 11,735 in 1960. The total number of beds at the disposal of the mental health service in 1963 was 195,934, including beds of clinics attached to psychiatric dispensaries. How is this large increase accounted for? By the fact that medical institutions destroyed and damaged during the war have now been reconstructed. Many new hospitals have been built. Thus, the pre-
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