Hostels are low-cost, short-term accommodations for travelers of all ages. Visitors pay for either a public or a private room. Prices vary based on style, location, and amenities but overall are very affordable. Hostels are the most common choice of accommodation for travelers; there are membership deals and discounts for frequent users. For more information, visit STA Travel [1]. Things to Con...

Residential Accommodation and Day Centres The proposals put forward for hostels vary considerably : the majority see the need for something extra and some plan special hostels for the aged and mentally infirm; some for patients discharged from mental hospitals; some use the hostels of voluntary organisations, some their own. Little is said about the need to collaborate with mental hospitals but...

Hostels are low-cost, short-term accommodations for travelers of all ages. Visitors pay for either a public or a private room. Prices vary based on style, location, and amenities but overall are very affordable. Hostels are the most common choice of accommodation for travelers; there are membership deals and discounts for frequent users. For more information, visit STA Travel [1]. Things to Con...

a neat alternative label, but at least "longstay hostel" is accurate and not, so far anyway, an emotionally-charged term. The suggestion that this type of hostel should be administered by the local authority welfare department overlooks the responsibilities placed on local health authorities by the Mental Health Act, and in practice the services for the mentally retarded already run by the heal...

The purpose of this study was to investigate risk factors that could promote HIV infection amongst adolescents and young adults living in tertiary educational institutional hostels in Namibia. Employing structured questionnaires and focus group discussions, we sought to answer questions pertaining to factors, beliefs systems, values, traditions and sexual relations that could promote HIV infect...

standing about hostels for the subnormal. A hospital's functions are: observation, special examination, treatment (including training) and nursing care. But subnormality hospitals now take well-behaved patients, whose immediate problem is solely that they have been left destitute, through the death or incapacity of parents or guardians. Neither their medical condition nor conduct really warrant...

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...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to test the assumption that mass miniature x ray screening of the single homeless (hostel residents) is a cost-effective means of controlling pulmonary tuberculosis. DESIGN The study was a prospective experimental screening exercise to identify new cases of active tuberculosis completing treatment. SETTING The setting was eight hostels in south London. A mobile x...

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