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...first accounts of insulin shock treatment for dementia praecox (type of insanity characterized by split personality, delusions, self-absorption, etc.) seemed to make the old miracle of casting out devils come true (TIME, Jan. 25, 1937).* Last week New York State's hard-headed Temporary Commission on State Hospital Problems, whose job it is to find ways of reducing the enormous state hospital population (73,000), ignored the miracle angle, produced the first report on what insulin can mean in days & months, dollars & cents. It recommended to Governor Dewey that, if only for economy's sake, insulin shock...
They Pay. The study was based on 1,128 patients treated with insulin at Brooklyn State Hospital between January 1937 and July 1942, compared with 876 from other hospitals who got no shock treatment. Results: 1) of the insulin-treated, 79.5% were able to leave the hospital, 55% were useful members of the community at the end of the study; 2) of the untreated, 58.8% were able to leave the hospital, 40.5% were useful members of the community. Only four insulin patients died during treatment, and only one death was directly traced to the drug...
Average hospital stay of insulin patients was 3.8 months shorter than for the others...
...Electrical sleep, an improvement on electric shock therapy for the insane, has been developed by a group of California doctors. A treatment lasts seven minutes. The doctors claim that their method is as effective as insulin shock against schizophrenia...
...Some hospitals do not use insulin or electric shock therapy because of staff "inertia...