Annual report of Graylingwell Hospital : 52nd, 1949.

  • Graylingwell Hospital (Chichester, England)
Date:
1949
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Credit: Annual report of Graylingwell Hospital : 52nd, 1949. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester (Group No. 45) The First Report of the Management Committee being the FIFTY-SECOND Annual Report of Graylingwell Hospital. 1. INTRODUCTION. Nearly a century ago, a statutory obligation was imposed upon every Committee responsible for the management of a public mental hospital to report annually to its parent authority as to 44 the state and condition of the hospital, as to its sufficiency to provide the necessary accommodation, and as to its management and the conduct of the officers and servants and the care of the patients therein.” A permissive proviso gave a general discretion to include remarks on any matters connected with the Hospital. The Management Committee have decided to continue this practice although there is now no legal requirement for them to do so. There is, however, an increasing tendency to introduce the subject of psychiatry into literature, the theatre and the cinema and, in the opinion of the Committee, the need is greater than ever before for the general public to be informed of the true facts, in order that the mistaken ideas and impressions, which unfortunately abound, may be effectively counteracted and corrected. The Committee, therefore, have pleasure in publishing their annual report, the first since the commencement of the National Health Service, and the fifty-second since the opening of Graylingwell Hospital in 1897.