Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head of the U.N. Security Council, Juan Atilio Bramuglia had put the name of Argentina high on the list of big-time diplomacy. Few Argentines knew that. President Juan Domingo Peron had told Argentina's controlled press and radio to ignore Bramuglia. The cold-shoulder treatment extended even to Bramuglia's visit to Washington, where last week he talked with President Harry Truman and top Government officials...
...Story. The Snake Pit is the story of Virginia Cunningham (Miss de Havilland) who loses her mind, spends about a year in a state institution, and is released as cured. In the novel, the heroine's illness and its treatment remained undefined. Dramatically compressing the somewhat rambling original story, Scriptwriters Millen (The Outward Room) Brand and Frank Partos added a brand-new doctor and gave the heroine a brand-new case history...
...appreciably higher" than it was 50 years ago. Albert Deutsch, medicine and social welfare columnist of the New York Star, has made an angry survey of state mental hospitals, The Shame of the States (Harcourt, Brace; $3). Deutsch gives most such hospitals big black marks: for neglect, overcrowding, inadequate treatment, lack of simple decencies...
...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...
...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...