Mental diseases: a public health problemMay, James Vance
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Mental diseases: a public health problem
May, James Vance
Mental health services; Psychology, Pathological
Since the compilation of statistical data relating to the various
activities of the hospitals for mental diseases in this country was
definitely decided upon by the Association at its meeting in 1913,
the membership of the Committee on Statistics has from time to time
included the following:—Dr. Thomas W. Salmon, Medical Director,
National Committee for Mental Hygiene; Dr. Owen Copp, Physician in
Chief and Superintendent, Pennsylvania Hospital, Department for
Nervous and Mental Diseases; Dr. E. Stanley Abbot, Medical Director,
Public Charities Association of Pennsylvania; Dr. Henry A. Cotton,
Medical Director, New Jersey State Hospital, Trenton; Dr. L. Vernon
Briggs, Boston, former member of the Massachusetts State Board of
Insanity; Dr. Adolf Meyer, Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins
University; Dr. Albert M. Barrett, Professor of Psychiatry and
Neurology, University of Michigan; Dr. George H. Kirby, Director
of the Psychiatric Institute, New York City; Dr. Samuel T. Orton,
Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Psychopathic Hospital,
University of Iowa; Dr. Frankwood E. Williams, Associate Medical
Director, National Committee for Mental Hygiene; Dr. Elmer E. Southard,
Director of the Massachusetts State Psychiatric Institute; Dr. C.
Macfie Campbell, Director of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, and the
writer. Associated with the committee officially were: Dr. August Hoch,
formerly Director of the Psychiatric Institute, New York; Dr. H. M.
Pollock, Statistician of the New York State Hospital Commission; Miss
Edith M. Furbush, Statistician of the National Committee for Mental
Hygiene, and various others.
The Association's classification of mental diseases at this time (1921)
is as follows:
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