Mental Health Services
A Handbook on Lunacy and Mental l reatment, and Mental Deficiency. :Author: F. B. Matthews, M.B.E.,D.P.A.,F.C.I.S. 35s. National Assistance. By Peter Dow, M.A., Barrister-at-Law. 25s. Both published by Shaw & Son, Ltd., Fetter Lane, E.C.4.
These two books should prove a godsend to those whose business it is to possess a working knowledge of recent legislation in connection with Mental Health and National Assistance.
The volume on the Mental Health Services contains the texts, copiously annotated, of the Lunacy, Mental Treatment and Mental Deficiency Acts as now amended, and the bewildered administrator and social worker is therefore no longer under the necessity of using copies of Acts slashed and mutilated by revolutionary alterations, or of checking up on every doubtful section which may or may not still hold good. The book, moreover, also includes the relevant provisions of other Acts bearing on the Mental Health Service and of the National Health Service Act itself, together with Orders, Rules and Regulations.
The volume on National Assistance is equally comprehensive and informative. To quote the publishers’ announcement, it aims ” to present a complex measure of legislation in a form which is planned for easy reference The text of the new Act with annotations, is clearly given and an Appendix contains the Statutory Instruments and Circulars issued on its passing. We cordially endorse the opinion of the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health who writes in a Foreword : ” An essential part of any administrator’’s equipment is a good working knowledge of the measures governing his work : and I am therefore confident that this book will be welcomed as a helpful signpost along our new road.’’’’ A.L.H.
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