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
Boards of control exist in Arkansas, California, Iowa, Kentucky,
Minnesota, North Dakota, Oregon, Vermont, West Virginia and
Wisconsin. California has, in addition to this, a board of charities
and corrections and a commission in lunacy. Vermont has a director
of state institutions. In New Hampshire the board of trustees of
the state hospital constitutes a commission in lunacy. A number of
states have special departments for the supervision of hospitals
for mental diseases and in some instances for the control of
all institutions. Delaware has a board of supervisors of state
institutions. This is essentially a board of control. This is true
of the board of commissioners of state institutions in Florida.
Illinois has a department of public welfare, which places the control
of the charitable, penal and corrective institutions, as well as the
hospitals for mental diseases, largely in the hands of one man, a
layman. Michigan and Pennsylvania also have departments of public
welfare. Kansas has placed its hospitals under the control of a board
of administration of state charitable institutions. Maryland has a
lunacy commission and Missouri a board of managers. Montana and Nevada
each have a board of commissioners for the insane. New Jersey has a
state board of control of institutions and agencies, the direction of
the state hospitals being delegated to a commissioner of charities and
corrections. New York has the largest department in the country having
exclusive state hospital functions. It is under the supervision of a
hospital commission. Ohio has a board of administration which manages
and governs all of the charitable, corrective and penal institutions
of the state. This is, of course, a board of control pure and simple.
Oklahoma has a commissioner of charities and corrections who is an
elective officer, and has, in addition, a lunacy commission and a board
of public affairs. Rhode Island has a penal and charitable commission
of nine members. Utah has a board of insanity and Wyoming a board of
charities and reform. Massachusetts has a department of mental
diseases under the direction of a medical commissioner, with four
unpaid associates. In addition to the hospitals for mental diseases
the department has under its jurisdiction the institutions for the
feebleminded and the epileptics.
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