Word: mental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Turned over to Cambridge police, Shaw was found "not guilty of trespassing," but was committed to the Westboro State Hospital under "observation for mental reasons." Thirty-four double-bucks found in Shaw's pockets were impounded by the court...
...graduate of the Harvard Medical School who specializes in eugenics will address the International Congress on Mental Deficiency at the Copley-Plaza Friday morning...
General Ike was talking at a Manhattan luncheon given to raise money for the U.S. delegation to the International Congress on Mental Health, to be held in London next August. The world's mental health, the lunchers had heard, is not good. Said Dr. (formerly Brigadier General) William C. Menninger, head of Army psychiatry during World War II: "We had become aware that in the Army one out of eight men who came before the draft boards had to be rejected for mental illness . .'-. 62% in the veterans' hospitals are psychiatric problems. Half of our hospital beds...
...London Congress will try to find out. Delegates from 55 nations (teachers, nurses, industrialists, clergymen, psychiatrists) will attack the problem of mental health all over the world, from every possible angle. They will explore the origin of group mental disorders, such as class and national hatreds and prejudice against minorities...
...Public Health Service announced that U.S. mental hospitals are crowded 16.3% beyond capacity...