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s The Health Bulletin December, 1942 j case records should be studied for information to start our research work in the communities selected for the survey. Early diagnosis is the key note to success. Then, it is a logical conclusion to assume that in the patient's environment is the rational place to start correctional measures. There is a real need for community psychiatric services and it is imperative that mental hygiene clinics be established throughout the country if we hope to cope with one of our greatest obstacles to progress. Our present outmoded approach should be replaced by a more scientific approach. It is more economical, and certainly more humane. By so doing, we will begin to empty our institutions of the mentally sick and our penal institutions of its inmates, so many of whom are there on account of moral, mental and physical deficiencies, from psychotic causes, and by making these corrections we will exchange sorrow, sickness and crime for happiness, health and morality. I desire to introduce further that it should be our determination to DO, not just discuss, something about the restoration of these forgotten men, the psychotic, with and without psychosis, emphasis being placed on the without psychosis group. Next, I would maintain that there are many phases where overlapping occurs in the fields of mental, physical and social agencies, workers grounded in medicine should be the directing agency supported by physical and social agencies. It may be idealistic to say that every child born should be born with a sound mind and a sound body in order that he or she may compete for his place in this world, and that the sound mind and body should be maintained through the preservation of health and the prevention of disease. It is through the lack or break-down of environment, social and disease prevention programs that activates moral, physical and mental decadence. Raymond S. Crispell has this to say: "Factors in mental, nervous and emotional disorders are not only mixed by being partly physical and partly mental, but are also apt to be multiple, complex and variable. Each patient has to be individual- ized.'* I make the point that we should attack the problem in mass through a better distribution of environmental, social and medical care and give individual attention to the psychotic that fail to make the grade. Just here is where we have fallen down. Our institutions are furnishing custodial care with an ever-increasing demand for more space for the increased demand to house the mentally sick, the insane, the mentally deficient, the blind, the prodigal son and daughter, and the criminal, whereas we should devote our greatest effort to the etiology and its prevention rather than the cure and custodial care. Our approach in emptying rather than expanding our physical equipment for institutional care should be to secure a sound cell for the seed of life as we do sound seed for our soil. How? That mating shall take place only among the mental and physically sound. We can approach this goal through maternal and infant care clinics, treatment of the syphilitics, alcoholics, nutritional disturbances, etc., leading to the mental and nervous diseases. The application of the principal of eugenics is too long delayed and an effective program for planned parenthood for the healthy, and the sterilization of the degenerates should be forthcoming. Peresis is one, if not the greatest problem we have confronting us and by the proper approach we could eliminate 9.5 of the patients admitted to be in our State hospitals due to this cause. Neuropsychiatric conditions have been responsible for about 7 percent of all Selective Service rejections—63,000 men up to May first of this year. This is a challenge to our ingenuity. We must do something about it. The tuberculosis death rate among unskilled workers is seven times higher than that among professional workers. The number of active cases of tuberculosis in the United States is estimated to be about 500,000.
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-04: The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Document Title | The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh, North Carolina State Board of Health. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1942 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-057 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 57 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb1296443 |
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Fixed Title * | Page 8 |
Document Title | The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh, North Carolina State Board of Health. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1942 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-057-0206 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; article |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
Filename | healthbulletinse57nort_0206.jp2 |
Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 57 |
Issue Number | 12 |
Page Number | 8 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | s The Health Bulletin December, 1942 j case records should be studied for information to start our research work in the communities selected for the survey. Early diagnosis is the key note to success. Then, it is a logical conclusion to assume that in the patient's environment is the rational place to start correctional measures. There is a real need for community psychiatric services and it is imperative that mental hygiene clinics be established throughout the country if we hope to cope with one of our greatest obstacles to progress. Our present outmoded approach should be replaced by a more scientific approach. It is more economical, and certainly more humane. By so doing, we will begin to empty our institutions of the mentally sick and our penal institutions of its inmates, so many of whom are there on account of moral, mental and physical deficiencies, from psychotic causes, and by making these corrections we will exchange sorrow, sickness and crime for happiness, health and morality. I desire to introduce further that it should be our determination to DO, not just discuss, something about the restoration of these forgotten men, the psychotic, with and without psychosis, emphasis being placed on the without psychosis group. Next, I would maintain that there are many phases where overlapping occurs in the fields of mental, physical and social agencies, workers grounded in medicine should be the directing agency supported by physical and social agencies. It may be idealistic to say that every child born should be born with a sound mind and a sound body in order that he or she may compete for his place in this world, and that the sound mind and body should be maintained through the preservation of health and the prevention of disease. It is through the lack or break-down of environment, social and disease prevention programs that activates moral, physical and mental decadence. Raymond S. Crispell has this to say: "Factors in mental, nervous and emotional disorders are not only mixed by being partly physical and partly mental, but are also apt to be multiple, complex and variable. Each patient has to be individual- ized.'* I make the point that we should attack the problem in mass through a better distribution of environmental, social and medical care and give individual attention to the psychotic that fail to make the grade. Just here is where we have fallen down. Our institutions are furnishing custodial care with an ever-increasing demand for more space for the increased demand to house the mentally sick, the insane, the mentally deficient, the blind, the prodigal son and daughter, and the criminal, whereas we should devote our greatest effort to the etiology and its prevention rather than the cure and custodial care. Our approach in emptying rather than expanding our physical equipment for institutional care should be to secure a sound cell for the seed of life as we do sound seed for our soil. How? That mating shall take place only among the mental and physically sound. We can approach this goal through maternal and infant care clinics, treatment of the syphilitics, alcoholics, nutritional disturbances, etc., leading to the mental and nervous diseases. The application of the principal of eugenics is too long delayed and an effective program for planned parenthood for the healthy, and the sterilization of the degenerates should be forthcoming. Peresis is one, if not the greatest problem we have confronting us and by the proper approach we could eliminate 9.5 of the patients admitted to be in our State hospitals due to this cause. Neuropsychiatric conditions have been responsible for about 7 percent of all Selective Service rejections—63,000 men up to May first of this year. This is a challenge to our ingenuity. We must do something about it. The tuberculosis death rate among unskilled workers is seven times higher than that among professional workers. The number of active cases of tuberculosis in the United States is estimated to be about 500,000. |
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Article Title | The Maladjusted What Can We Do About It? |
Article Author | Reynolds, Carl V. |
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