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Changes in Duration of Stay of Mental Hospital Patients Suffering from Functional Psychoses During the Past 20 Years

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Arthur Harris  and
Vera Norris
Arthur Harris
Affiliation:
Bethlem Royal Hospital and The Maudsley Hospital
Vera Norris
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, Maudsley Hospital
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We have reported a follow-up study of patients first admitted to London County Council Mental Hospitals in 1930 (Harris and Lubin, 1952, Harris and Norris, in press). The present paper deals with a group of similar patients, i.e., psychotics from whom epileptics, known organic cases, ascertained mental defectives, those over the age of 40 and those who had been admitted to a mental hospital previously were excluded, who were transferred to mental hospitals from St. Francis Observation Ward during the period May 1940 to May 1942. The main differences between this group and the 1930 one were: (a) The Mental Treatment Act of 1930 had come into operation and many were admitted to mental hospitals as voluntary patients; (b) modern physical methods of treatment were in use; (c) in most cases the history was known.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 100 , Issue 418 , January 1954 , pp. 241 - 249
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1954 

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