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Epileptics in the Community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

J. Tylor Fox
J. Tylor Fox*
Affiliation:
Lingfield Epileptic Colony, Surrey
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In round figures there are 11,000 epileptics in public mental hospitals, 3,000-4,000 in institutions for mental defectives, just under 4,000, who are neither insane nor mentally defective, in colonies and residential schools, and an unknown number, probably a considerable one, in public assistance hospitals and institutions. How many are living in the community is not known.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 85 , Issue 358 , September 1939 , pp. 940 - 952
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1939 

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