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Patterns of New Chronicity in a Mental Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Laurence G. Measey  and
Howard Smith
Laurence G. Measey
Affiliation:
The Central Hospital, Warwick
Howard Smith
Affiliation:
Glenside Hospital, Stapleton, Bristol
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The problem of the long-stay patient in the Mental Hospital has been discussed for a long time. The prediction that there would be a steady decline in the number of these patients made by Tooth and Brooke (1951) has not been borne out by the evidence of Baldwin and Hall (1967), and more recently by Hailey (1971). They have shown that although there has been a fall in numbers the rate has been far from steady.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 123 , Issue 574 , September 1973 , pp. 349 - 351
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973 

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