Mental Disorder in the Defective under Community Care
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admitting patients to the Royal Western Counties Hospital. In December 1957 there were 574 persons ascertained as mentally defective under the English Mental Deficiency Acts and under statutory supervision or guardianship. These patients were scattered in their own homes throughout Cornwall, and were visited and reported upon at quarterly or more frequent intervals by county social workers. Their files contained all reports dating back to their initial ascertainment.
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