Twelfth Annual Report of the State Board of Insanity PDF Download

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Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528109789
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Excerpt from Twelfth Annual Report of the State Board of Insanity: Of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the Year Ending November 30, 1910 Such needs may be summarized under three heads: (1) provision for the observation and temporary care of the insane, pending commit ment, apart from criminals, under suitably trained nurses and medical supervision; (2) provision, under the general hospital regime, for such patients as may be treated, in the main, on a voluntary basis, and for such other patients as may be properly dealt with through an out patient department; (3) teaching and research centers. The practical working out of a satisfactory plan to meet these needs will be difficult, and must be carried forward step by step in the light of actual experience. It is most desirable that the initiative should be taken as soon as possible at some large center like Boston. Continuing inquiry as to the community aspect of its prob lem, the Board addressed to three thousand physicians through out the Commonwealth a circular requesting their co - operation in gathering information, and the favor of their suggestion relative to existing methods of caring for the insane pending their commitment to insane hospitals, and as to the need of provision for the treatment of persons on the border line Of insanity or in the early stages of mental disease. A summary of. The information and suggestions elicited by the answers to the above-mentioned circular and the conclusions of the Board were printed in its sixth annual report (1904, pp. 27 thus in part. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.