Needs and Beds

The chronic mental hospital population: a six-year follow-up study.

“…(Four patients who were transferred direct to another mental hospital are not included here.) The death rate was about three times the discharge rate, reflecting the and Brooke, 1961;Norton, 1961;Kingston, 1962;Lindsay, 1962;Baldwin and Hall, 1967;Hailey, 1971). The 137 deaths in hospital occurred throughout the range of length of stay; all except 35 were of people aged 65 years or over.…”

“…(Four patients who were transferred direct to another mental hospital are not included here.) The death rate was about three times the discharge rate, reflecting the and Brooke, 1961;Norton, 1961;Kingston, 1962;Lindsay, 1962;Baldwin and Hall, 1967;Hailey, 1971 The 10% of Camberwell patients who were discharged before the end of the six-year follow-up period (42 patients) were each traced back into the community in order to discover where they had gone from the mental hospital and whether they were readmitted within 12 months. An attempt was also made to relocate each of these 42 patients at the end of the period.…”