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Mental Hospital Planning in Denmark

Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases

ABSTRACT

The Report of a Danish Commission which was set up in 1952 to examine the present deficiencies and plan the future reform of the Danish State Mental Hospitals is reviewed. The plans put forward aim at anticipating needs up to 1975 and include the building of 9 new mental hospitals, with 350 beds each, closely linked to general hospitals and also 8 new after care institutions. A summary is given of the premises on which these plans are based.

Other proposals, including those for the criminal insane, are mentioned.