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Some Changes in the Composition of a Mental Hospital Population

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Christine Hassall
Affiliation:
late Powick Hospital, now at Moorhaven Hospital, Bittaford, Ivybridge, South Devon
A. M. Spencer
Affiliation:
Powick Hospital, near Worcester
K. W. Cross
Affiliation:
Birmingham Regional Hospital Board, 146 Hagley Road, Birmingham 16

Extract

The future of the psychiatric services, in particular of the mental hospital, has been the source of much speculation since the publication of the Hospital Plan for England and Wales (1962). According to the Plan there would, by 1975, be psychiatric accommodation in each Region at the level of 1·;8 beds per 1,000 population, as estimated by Tooth and Brooke (1961).

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1965 

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