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Hearst's sons had known all along. So had his editorial chieftains. But the secret was being kept from the old man. Last week Albert Deutsch, the New York Post Home News's medical columnist (TiME, Aug. 9), exposed this "capital irony...
Thanks for your reviews of The Snake Pit and Albert Deutsch's The Shame of the States [TIME, Dec. 20]. They both show our need for better facilities and staffing for our mental institutions. Twice I have been resident in Elgin State Hospital (Ill.) as a patient ... It is my belief that mental illness is no more serious than many other of the serious illnesses such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, and heart trouble...
...Even Deutsch's statistics are horrifying: 125,000 persons enter mental hospitals in the U.S. every year; 1,000,000 children now in grade schools will spend some time in state mental hospitals before they die; the 190 state hospitals cost $200 million a year; total cost of mental illness in the U.S. (including loss of pay, services, etc.) is about $1 billion a year...
...American Psychiatric Association has set minimum standards for mental hospitals: at least one psychiatrist for every 150 patients, one graduate nurse for every 40, one attendant for every eight, an outlay of at least $5 a day per patient for food, care and treatment. Says Deutsch: "Not a single state mental hospital in the U.S. meets, or has ever met, even the minimum standards set by A.P.A. in all major aspects of care and treatment." The current average in state mental hospitals, he says, is $1.25 a day per patient...
...Deutsch found New York's Rockland State Hospital, the "Juniper Hill" of The Snake Pit (see CINEMA), one of the best, but even Rockland was 30% overcrowded, with 6,100 patients jammed into space intended for 4,700. "The hospital needed at least twice as many doctors, twice as many nurses, and three times as many attendants to provide adequate care and treatment . . . Often only one attendant watched over two wards for homicidal patients. There weren't nearly enough recreation workers or occupational therapy workers to help Rockland's patients on the road back to mental normalcy...