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Institutional care of mental patients in the United States /

"These pages contain my own report of an investigation I undertook to study public and private institutions caring for either the mentally ill or the mentally deficient in the US. 631 institutions were surveyed, and personal visits were made to 600 of these institutions. When questionnaires wer...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grimes, John Maurice, 1885-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The author, [1934]
Series:Historical issues in mental health.
Subjects:
Psychiatric hospitals > United States.
Mentally ill > Care > United States.
Mentally ill > Care.
Psychiatric hospitals.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:"These pages contain my own report of an investigation I undertook to study public and private institutions caring for either the mentally ill or the mentally deficient in the US. 631 institutions were surveyed, and personal visits were made to 600 of these institutions. When questionnaires were returned and personal visits completed, a preliminary report was written. The report written here is quite similar to the preliminary one, but I have rewritten it with stronger statements to provide accurate descriptions of conditions in these institutions included in the study. To make these conditions known is the first step toward their improvement"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 138 pages) : illustrations.
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.