General Paralysis: Report of 579 Cases Treated by Malaria in the London County Mental Hospitals. By W. A. Caldwell. Published by the London County Council, 1931. No. 2821.

1932 ◽  
Vol 78 (323) ◽  
pp. 946-946
Author(s):  
W. D. Nicol
Keyword(s):  
County Council ◽  
General Paralysis ◽  
Mental Hospitals

A Review of Seven Years' Malarial Therapy in General Paralysis

1932 ◽  
Vol 78 (323) ◽  
pp. 843-866 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. D. Nicol
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
County Council ◽  
Ministry Of Health ◽  
General Paralysis ◽  
Mental Hospitals

Shortly after the introduction of therapeutic malaria into this country, the Ministry of Health and the Board of Control, in consultation with the London County Council Mental Hospitals Department, established a special centre for this treatment at Horton Mental Hospital. A separate villa in the hospital grounds was set apart for the work, and, through the interest, advice and help of Col. S. P. James, M.D., F.R.S., of the Ministry of Health, a laboratory was equipped and arrangements were made for the supply of malarial infective material to all parts of Great Britain. The work was begun in April, 1925, and during the seven years that have elapsed since then, 200 cases have been treated. These cases are all women, drawn from the various London County Mental Hospitals; recently, however, an annexe has been added to the centre, and facilities are now available for treating men also.

The Cholesterol Content of the Cerebro-spinal Fluid in Certain Mental Diseases

1926 ◽  
Vol 72 (296) ◽  
pp. 62-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. G. T. Poynder ◽  
J. Russell
Keyword(s):  
Cholesterol Content ◽  
County Council ◽  
Spinal Fluid ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
The Subject

The presence of cholesterol in the cerebro-spinal fluid has been the subject of investigation by various observers. The following communication is based on a series of observations conducted at the Pathological Laboratory of the Maudsley Hospital, on specimens of cerebro-spinal fluid obtained from patients in the mental hospitals of the London County Council.

The Malarial Treatment of General Paralysis; Some Psychological and Physical Observations

1925 ◽  
Vol 71 (292) ◽  
pp. 30-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. De M. Rudolf
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Ability To Work ◽  
General Paralysis ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Definite Statement

Numerous articles have appeared within the last few months in both Continental and English literature describing the value of the malarial treatment in cases of general paralysis. Thus Yorke and Macfie state that out of 84 general paralytics treated with malaria, 23 (or 27.4 per cent.) had been, or were about to be, discharged, at the time of writing, from the mental hospitals. Weygandt in 50 cases obtained good remissions in 48 per cent., and Kirschbaum in 51 in 58.8 per cent. Scripture states that in Wagner-Jauregg's clinic complete remissions were obtained in 44 per cent, out of 141 cases treated. This percentage of complete remissions is still being maintained, Gerstmann reporting recently that 40 per cent, show complete remissions with ability to work, 30 per cent, improvement, and 30 per cent, no improvement. If only early cases are treated Wagner-Jauregg states that nearly 100 per cent. of cures can be obtained. These figures compare very favourably with the percentage of spontaneous remissions recorded by Kirschbaum. This writer found that spontaneous remissions occurred in only 11.4 per cent. of untreated general paralytics. At present it is too early to make any definite statement with regard to the permanence of the remissions, although the three oldest successful cases in Wagner-Jauregg's clinic have now shown complete remissions for years.

The Bi-Coloured Guaiac Reaction in Mental Hospital Practice

1934 ◽  
Vol 80 (328) ◽  
pp. 87-93
Author(s):  
S. W. Hardwick
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Present Report ◽  
Laboratory Diagnosis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Colloidal System ◽  
Supernatant Fluid ◽  
Hospital Practice ◽  
General Paralysis ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Gold Sol

The object of this investigation was to ascertain the value of the bicoloured guaiac reaction on the cerebro-spinal fluid in mental hospital practice. The reaction, which was first described by de Thurzo (i), is similar in principle to the Lange gold sol test, in that under certain conditions precipitation occurs from a colloidal system. Its originality depends on the fact that two dyes, naphthol green and brilliant fuchsin are contained in the system, one of which attaches itself to the precipitating colloid (brilliant fuchsin), whilst the other (naphthol green) remains in the supernatant fluid. It is claimed that it is not so susceptible to possible fallacies as the gold sol test (such as chemical uncleanliness), that it is possibly more selective in its action, and that it has the same practical value in the laboratory diagnosis of neuro-syphilis. Results have been reported on hospital cases (2) showing fair agreement with the Lange and Wassermann tests, but so far no records are available showing the value of this test in a series of neuro-syphilitic cases from mental hospitals, with the exception of a brief report on 10 cases (3). The present report deals with 325 fluids obtained from cases in L.C.C. mental hospitals, and these included 125 cases of general paralysis treated by malaria and other pyrexial therapies.

The laboratory and the asylum: Francis Walker Mott and the pathological laboratory at London County Council Lunatic Asylum, Claybury, Essex (1895–1916)

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatjana Buklijas
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
County Council ◽  
Lunatic Asylum ◽  
General Paralysis ◽  
German Model

London County Council’s pathological laboratory in the LCC asylum at Claybury, Essex, was established in 1895 to study the pathology of mental illness. Historians of psychiatry have understood the Claybury laboratory as a predecessor of the Maudsley Hospital in London: not only was this laboratory closed when the Maudsley was opened in 1916, but its director, Frederick Walker Mott, a champion of the ‘German’ model in psychiatry, was instrumental in the establishment of this institution. Yet, as I argue in this essay, for all the continuities with the Maudsley, the Claybury laboratory should not be seen solely as its predecessor – or as a British answer to continental laboratories such as Theodor Meynert’s in Vienna. Rather, as I show using the examples of general paralysis of the insane and ‘asylum colitis’, the Claybury laboratory is best understood as an attempt to prevent mental illness using a microbiological model.

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

1954 ◽  
Vol 100 (418) ◽  
pp. 241-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Harris ◽  
Vera Norris
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospital ◽  
County Council ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Functional Psychoses ◽  
Hospital Patients ◽  
Mental Treatment ◽  
Mental Defectives ◽  
Methods Of Treatment

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.

The London County Council and Sir Frederick Mott, K.B.E., F.R.S.

1923 ◽  
Vol 69 (285) ◽  
pp. 220-224
Keyword(s):  
Medical Association ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
County Council ◽  
British Medical Association ◽  
Hospital Service ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
The World ◽  
Psychological Medicine ◽  
To Come ◽  
Psychology And Medicine

The relinquishing by Sir Frederick Mott of the offices of Pathologist to the London County Mental Hospitals and Director of the Laboratory is happily not the occasion for a funeral oration, nor does it connote a cessation of those wide activities in the world of neurology and psycho-pathology which have distinguished his career, of which his 18 years' mental hospital service forms only a part, howbeit an important one. On the contrary, as we announced in our last issue, he has accepted the appointment of Honorary Director of the Pathological Laboratory of the Birmingham City Mental Hospitals and Lecturer on Morbid Psychology at Birmingham's University. It thus happens that London's loss is Birmingham's gain, but what is more important, Sir Frederick Mott's services to scientific psychiatry are retained, and, we hope, for many years to come. In his case, as with many illustrious men who have adorned the learned professions, age has only served to broaden the outlook, to give insight, and to ripen wisdom, all of which psychological medicine sorely needs if it is to be a fruitful branch of the healing profession. His British Medical Association Lecture on Psychology and Medicine, delivered in November last (1), is illustrative of this fact, and that his pronouncements now are of more value than at any period of his career.

Homeless Men in London: I. Demographic Findings in a Lodging House Sample

1971 ◽  
Vol 118 (544) ◽  
pp. 313-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. C. Lodge Patch
Keyword(s):  
County Council ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Homeless Men ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Reception Centre

Surveys of homeless men have emphasized a variety of correlations and causes. Criminality (Edwardset al.,1968; Sewell, 1969; Laidlaw, 1956; Commissioners of Police, 1859), alcoholism (Straus, 1946; Wattenburget al.,1954; Bogue, 1963; Blumberg.,et al.,1966) and poverty (Booth, 1890; National Assistance Board, 1966; London County Council, 1962; Shelter, 1969) are some to which attention has been drawn already (Lodge Patch, 1970). The relationship of these to a rootless way of life seems less impressive than psychiatric factors (Anderson, 1923; Whiteley, 1955; Laidlaw, 1956: Skinner, 1966–7). Edwards, for example, showed that 24 per cent of men in a reception centre had been in mental hospitals; 7 per cent having been discharged within six months of the Survey.

Review of Compulsory Admission to Mental Hospitals.

1981 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 483-484
Author(s):  
William T. McReynolds
Keyword(s):  
Compulsory Admission ◽  
Mental Hospitals
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