for those evacuated children who proved to unbilletable in private foster homes and who were also found far too difficult to be kept in ordinal hostels.

and clubs are in short supply for special school-leavers to provide stability and order during the difficult years of adolescence and to prevent much wastage of young lives?and of potential workers. Besides the valuable contribution made by the National Association for Mental Health in establishing two such hostels, local authorities are tackling this problem; and the provision of purpose-built...

Christian Action recently published a 'league table' of local authority performance in providing after-care hostels for those discharged from hospitals for the mentally ill. So far, since the 1959 Mental Health Act, only about 2,500 beds have been provided for the whole of England and Wales. (15) headed the provincial league with Lewisham (20) taking first place in the metropolitan league. The ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate mortality among users of hostels for homeless people in Copenhagen, and to identify predictors of death such as conditions during upbringing, mental illness, and misuse of alcohol and drugs. DESIGN Register based follow up study. SETTING Two hostels for homeless people in Copenhagen, Denmark PARTICIPANTS 579 people who stayed in one hostel in Copenhagen in 1991, ...

MANY patients in mental hospitals, while no longer needing the active treatment services of a hospital, are still unable to live in the community without help. In addition, there are many patients in the community for whom hospitalisation is not yet necessary but for whom some form of help is needed to prevent it in the near future. Voluntary and governmental groups have long been aware of the ...

the study evaluated the physical qualities and satisfaction in students’ housing in selectedstudents’ housing for the university of ibadan. through survey method, eight hostels were purposively selected tocapture variation in gender, level of study and hostel design. the sampling frame showed that 5605 students at ui werefound in 2,147 rooms. one out of every 10 (10%) of the rooms were selected...

This paper proposes a new hybrid multiattribute decision making (MADM) model which deals with the interactions that usually exist between hostel attributes in the process of measuring the students’ satisfaction towards a set of hostels and identifying the optimal strategies for enhancing their satisfaction. The model uses systematic random stratified sampling approach for data collection purpos...

TRIAL DESIGN Cluster randomised controlled trial. OBJECTIVE To compare current practice for encouraging homeless people to be screened for tuberculosis on a mobile digital X-ray unit in London, UK, with the additional use of volunteer peer educators who have direct experience of tuberculosis, homelessness or both. PARTICIPANTS 46 hostels took part in the study, with a total of 2342 resident...

This paper offers a new, hybrid multiple attribute decision-making (MADM) procedure which can be employed to quantitatively develop the optimal strategies for inflating students’ satisfaction of university hostels. The procedure uses: the systematic random stratified sampling approach for data collection purpose as students dwelling in hostels are ‘naturally’ grouped by block and gender, factor...