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Residential Needs in Hospital and the Community for Mentally Handicapped People

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Michael Craft  and
Rodney Wilkins
Michael Craft
Affiliation:
Bryn-y-Neuadd Hospital, Llanfairfechan, Gwynedd, North Wales
Rodney Wilkins
Affiliation:
Department of Health and Social Security
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Summary

Using successive analyses of hospitalized mentally handicapped people from a geographically defined Welsh catchment area, this article attempts to evaluate changes in cohorts of such patients. It suggests the likelihood that the level of hospital accommodation predicted in the White Paper ‘Better Services for the Mentally Handicapped’ will be sufficient.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 132 , Issue 5 , May 1978 , pp. 450 - 454
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1978 

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