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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sick Society. Only an insignificant number of patients were disturbed enough to justify a fraction of these precautions. It was society itself that was insecure and full of irrational fears of what the mentally ill might...
...them to wait for a little talk. The important thing is that they are asked to stay in, not physically restrained. Patients on shock treatment are asked to stay in on treatment days, for their own safety. They understand. In all, 80%-or more than 4,000 patients-have full freedom of the grounds, unsupervised, some part of the day, and about 60 have downtown privileges...
...furniture. Windows, no longer barred, have gay curtains or draperies with drawstrings. Instead of glaring ceiling lights, there are bridge and table lamps. Glass vases hold cut flowers. Plant stands are loaded with potted violets. Glass tumblers and bottles-potentially lethal weapons-are all over. Each ward has its full-length mirror...
...value are locked up for safety's sake. Women use knives freely when cooking in individual ward kitchens, are allowed scissors for sewing. They use electric washing machines, dryers and irons. Men shave themselves in the ward barber shop (though attendants change blades in safety razors), and have full access to cutting and gouging tools in the craft shop. If anything, says Dr. Snow, there are fewer accidents and fewer suicide attempts nowadays...
...steel centers across the U.S., the millwrights, pipe fitters and laborers moved in to repair and start up the equipment that stood idle through the 116 days of the longest industry-wide steel strike in history. How long would it take for the steel industry to get back into full-scale operation...