Agglutination of typhoid and dysentery organisms by the sera of mental hospital patients

1927 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 627-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. A. Pickworth
BMJ ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 2 (5196) ◽  
pp. 436-438
Author(s):  
J. C. N. Tibbits ◽  
W. B. Harbert

1972 ◽  
Vol 120 (556) ◽  
pp. 321-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. P. Birkett

This study compares the mental symptoms of two groups of aged mental hospital patients. One group had senile brain disease but no brain infarcts. The other group had brain infarcts but no positive evidence of senile brain disease.


1946 ◽  
Vol 92 (386) ◽  
pp. 96-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donal F. Early

The problem of tuberculosis amongst mental hospital patients is of importance from both the psychiatric and public health point of view. Most of the active methods of psychiatric treatment must be abandoned or discontinued when physical illness intervenes. The problem is even more far-reaching from the standpoint of public health. Wingfield, Trail, Banks and McDougall (1942) have estimated that there is probably a reservoir of 250,000 infectious cases recognized and unrecognized in England, Scotland and Wales, and several authors have pointed out that mental hospitals contribute a disproportionate number to this reservoir. Modern methods of mental hospital administration with parole and leave privileges applied to the maximum number of patients lend importance to the public health aspect, not only the patients themselves and hospital staff being menaced, but also patients' visitors and relatives and other contacts outside hospital. The incidence of tuberculosis in mental hospitals has been variously estimated at 5 to 10 times and the mortality in peace-time 8 or 9 times that of the general population. These figures are sufficient to justify all efforts to bring the problem under control.


1970 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 275-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Levlne ◽  
J. Richard Wittenborn

The attitudes of a sample of 120 mental hospital patients toward themselves, their future, their symptoms and their hospitalization were correlated with 6 measures of improvement. It was found that the attitudes expressed by the patients were relevant for predicting the outcome of their mental disorder.


1970 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 269-271
Author(s):  
Vernon D. Patch

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