Abstract
Sporadic bacillary dysentery is an accepted concomitant of lunacy, and mental hospitals, on statistical evidence, harbour more than 99% of the disease. When an epidemic of dysentery occurs, the laboratory of the mental hospital is cluttered with fæcal specimens, but when the epidemic is resolved on a solitary “carrier” and a faulty drain the disease ceases to arouse further interest. Little effort is made to assess and control the endemic level. This the author has attempted to do, in a county mental hospital of, roughly, 1,000 beds.
Publisher
Royal College of Psychiatrists
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