The Mental Health Aspect of Public Health
- Author:
uoris M. Odium, M.A., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.,
D.P.M. Butterworth & Co. Ltd. Reprinted, as a pamphlet, from Modern Trends in Public Health.
This pamphlet will be useful to many as a comprehensive description of the mental health services as they exist at present, and may serve both as an introduction and as a reference, being clear, concise and objective. Its account of the various types of mental abnormality and possible treatment is necessarily very elementary, but is direct and simple.
Dr Odium’s views on future development deserve respect, and, as might be expected, she rightly stresses the need for health education. The only criticism is that her accounts of the duties of Regional Hospital Boards and of Local Health Authorities included proposals which are really her own and, however interesting, are not the only possible interpretation of the instructions of the National Health Service Act. R.F.T.
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