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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1968) 114: 1031-1039. doi: 10.1192/bjp.114.513.1031
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Census of a Reception Centre

GRIFFITH EDWARDS M.A., D.M., D.P.M.1, VALERIE WILLIAMSON B.A.1, ANN HAWKER 1, CELIA HENSMAN M.A.1, and SETA POSTOYAN B.A.1

1 The Alcohol Impact Project, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5

1. The history of Reception Centres is briefly reviewed. A 100-item structured questionnaire was administered to 279 men entering the Camberwell Reception Centre, London, on the night in April 1965.

2. Demographic data are presented, information on incidences of some physical illnesses, on mental hospital admissions, and on criminal involvement.

3. Aspects of drinking behaviour are examined: about 25 per cent. of men are chemically dependent on alcohol.

4. A correlation analysis shows the considerable interrelatedness of different symptoms of pathological drinking, explores the relation of demographic and social facts, etc., to drink being a problem, and to some extent differentiates London-born from non-London-born and early from late comers to the Reception Centre.

5. The heterogeneity of the Centre's population is noted and an attempt made to delineate subgroups. Future planning should be for smaller hostels in which the special requirements of particular subgroups can be met. A Hostel Service is needed.

Submitted on August 18, 1967






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