Mental diseases: a public health problem — John Shaqi
Mental diseases: a public health problemMay, James Vance
Science
Mental diseases: a public health problem
May, James Vance
Mental health services; Psychology, Pathological
Boards of trustees, managers, directors, or some other local
governing body, exist in the following states but without exclusive
control:—Alabama, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho,
Indiana, Louisiana (administrators), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania,
South Carolina (regents), Texas and Virginia.[23]
In the following states the hospitals have no local boards of any
kind:—Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas,
Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New
Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode
Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West
Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.[24]
As the state hospitals increased in number and importance, steps
were taken to coordinate their activities and for various obvious
reasons they were soon grouped together in departments. In the states
having a sufficient number of hospitals to warrant such a procedure,
separate specialized administrative units were established under
lunacy commissions, etc. In less populous communities where there were
only a few hospitals there soon developed a tendency to associate
them with the charitable, correctional and, in some instances, penal
institutions. Seventeen states, as has been shown, now have only
one hospital for mental diseases, eight have two and ten only three
institutions. This led either to placing the hospitals under boards of
charities and corrections or to the organization of new departments
known as boards of control. The hospitals for mental diseases are under
the supervision of boards of charities and corrections in the following
states:—Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Nebraska,
North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota and Virginia.[24]
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