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Leucotomy in Britain Today^*

Claybury Hospital, Woodford Bridge, Essex

^* A paper read to the Quarterly Meeting of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association on 15 November, 1961.

ABSTRACT

The use of leucotomy in Britain during the year ending 30 June, 1961 has been determined from the replies to a questionnaire sent to all mental hospitals and to many other centres. Reasons are discussed for the decline in this treatment during the last few years and for the marked differences existing between hospitals. Selective leucotomy is still a valuable treatment measure and should be considered more often than it is, particularly, but not only, in those mental hospitals, nearly half of those in the whole country, which did no leucotomies in the year under consideration.

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