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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...as being engaged in housework represent married women caring for their own households, not leaving their homes to become domestics or servants in the homes of others. The intent and purpose of the discussion of the trades and occupations of the patients will become more apparent in the last chapter of this work, for there thought will be given to ways and means of providing gainful occupation for discharged and paroled patients, as well as for those who may under unfavorable circumstances and conditions become so ill mentally as to make their commitment to a state hospital advisable. As pointed out above, the aim has also been to indicate the inadequacy of present accommodations and provisions in the state hospitals for the therapeutic treatment of patients through a sufficiently varied and interesting scheme of light occupations. VII. READMISSIONS TO STATE HOSPITALS One very important way properly to gauge the efficacy of the care and treatment accorded patients in state hospitals is to consider the proportion of patients that find it necessary to return to the hospitals from which they have been discharged or paroled, or taken home by relatives. There are necessarily a number of factors that enter into such a consideration, among them being the over-crowding in the hospitals, the ratio of officers, nurses, and attendants to the number of patients, diagnoses of the patients permitted to leave the hospital, and ease with which patients may be returned to the institutions. Of the 8,700 total admissions to the state hospitals for the year 1918, 6,797 or 78.1 per cent were first admissions; 1,903, or 21.9 per cent were readmissions.1 There was a marked difference between the readmission rates among the several hospitals; the Brooklyn State Hospital had a readm...

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