Word: westboro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Adams Westboro, Mass...
Reached at Westboro yesterday for comment, Romano confirmed that he had thrown coffee at the man, but denied that he had touched...
Large state mental institutions are still around. Several ring the Boston metropolitan area: Boston State Hospital, Westboro State Hospital, Metropolitan State Hospital and Bridgewater State Hospital. After 125 years of development, they still fail miserably to meet the needs of their patients. Westboro, for example, has only four doctors for approximately one thousand patients. Since 1955, though, a desperately needed alternative to despair without help or stagnation in a mental institution has developed for people who cannot pay for private therapy: networks of community mental health programs...
...lists for extended, out-patient psychotherapy (including after-care) for people just released from inpatient wards and for day care for retarded people. The 22-bed psychiatric ward at the Cambridge Hospital cannot accommodate everyone who needs in-patient help; many Cambridge-Somerville residents are sent instead to understaffed Westboro State Hospital--forty miles from Cambridge--for in-patient care. Furthermore, although new, effective techniques of group, milieu, and drug therapies have decreased the average length of hospitalization in the psychiatric ward of the Cambridge Hospital to only six weeks, many former patients soon deteriorate and sometimes even return...
Companies that have adopted the four-day week have been rewarded by easier recruiting, lower turnover of scarce skilled workmen and less absenteeism. At the George H. Bullard Co. of Westboro, Mass., average absenteeism dropped from 6% of the work force to less than 1%. Says Jerry Goucher, a wheel finisher: "I don't have to lose money by leaving work to fish on opening day like the other guys have to do. Lately, I've been cramming in everything on Friday-dentists, doctors, shopping. Then we have Saturday and Sunday to go somewhere." As Jack Peterson...