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Mental Deficiency Section

Memorandum on the Present and Future Development and Organization of Mental Handicap Services

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There are approximately 50,000 mentally handicapped patients in hospitals, the majority of whom have no prospect of being able to live in the community, by virtue of their disability and/or lack of appropriate facilities outside hospital. It is clear that hospitals must remain responsible for this group for the forseeable future and hence their resources must not be reduced. Indeed, the standards in these existing hospitals must not only be maintained, but improved.

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The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 129 , Issue S2 , August 1976 , pp. 11 - 20
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1976

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