Psychiatry in India and Pakistan
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The partition of India has thrown upon the Governments of the two Dominions responsibilities of such urgency that time must elapse before plans for the health of the population can take shape. When these plans come to be formulated the question of priorities is sure to arise. Mental illness did not arouse much medical enthusiasm in India in days gone by; and there (as elsewhere) other forms of sickness were (and still are) thought to be of more importance. Tuberculosis and leprosy, for example, present special problems. The provision of hospital accommodation for patients with these complaints is inadequate. Expert calculation revealed that in 1941 there were 20,000,000 persons in India " so blind as to be
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