The establishment of a health surveillance system for the single homeless is described. Health checks were performed in two Salvation Army hostels by a district nurse supported by general practitioners and other workers from one health centre. High levels of morbidity were discovered and the residents were largely treated by the primary health care team. Those residents who were referred to oth...

BACKGROUND In the era of deinstitutionalization, increasing numbers of schizophrenia patients reside and receive rehabilitational treatment within the framework of community hostels. The quality of staff-patient relationships is a crucial determinant of the rehabilitational process outcome. METHOD This study examined the characteristics of 56 schizophrenia hostel residents, measured the degre...

In the original evacuation scheme, drawn up to meet a contingency that was still theoretical and hopefully remote, attention was largely concentrated on the Process of getting children out of London and other vulnerable areas and on the task ?f ensuring that a billet of some kind was available for every child who needed it. On the whole, the schemes worked amazingly well and there was no lack o...

more help with their emotional problems than with adjustment to work and hostel life, and the function of these hostels is to ease them into normal, self-sufficient life in the world. Fairhaven, which can take up to 25 boys at a time, is on the Greenwich side of Blackheath, close to the park and well-placed for work in the southeast area of London. Fairlop House, catering for up to 19 girls, is...

In 1953, common lodging houses, working men’s hostels, seamen’s boarding houses and hostels for transport drivers and long distance crews were home to 7000 people in Glasgow. Most of the 5000 residents of the common lodging houses would now be called homeless – people having neither reasonable nor secure accommodation. Working men’s hotels, however, had a motley collection of individuals whose ...

New Look at mental disorder and seeks to shift the emphasis from hospital to domiciliary care. Its aim is to give patients with mental illness the same facilities as patients suffering from physical illness, to make admission to, and discharge from hospital as informal as possible, and to provide care and after care at home or in residential hostels which will compare favourably with similar fa...