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A New Day Hospital Service

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Ijaz Haider*
Affiliation:
St. Francis and Hurstwood Park Hospital, Haywards Heath, Sussex Severalls Hospital, Colchester, Essex

Extract

The increasing demand for the institutional care of elderly psychiatric patients has been a growing concern in England and especially in Essex, which has an unusually large number of old people (21 per cent. over 65 compared to a national average of 12 per cent.) (2).

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Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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References

1. Barton, R., Herd, J. A., Whitehead, J. A., and Brown, E. (1965). A new psychiatric unit for a mixed urban and rural population.” Med. Offr., 113, 35.Google Scholar
2. Census (1961). England and Wales County Report. Essex. H.M. Stationery Office.Google Scholar
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