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o o o rv , GuIDK3 1 The Medical Roundup Emeritus Consultant In Medicine, Mayo clinic Emtrttpi Professor of Medicine, Mayo Foundation A Viw Type Of Mental Hospital The other day, in Berkeley, Calif., I went with my good friend. Dr. A. E. Bennett, an able and forward- O fOU NEVE OUTQAOW YOUR NEED K) FOOM AM WOM MILK Driik 3 glasses f milk every day AIDER'S GOLD AWARD wmm mm 1 o o k ing psy c h i a t r ist, through a large new wing of the Herrick Gen eral Hospital, a wing soon to Use Mail ftibua Want Ada The Low Cit aT To Sell Items You Uwtr Need Dr Alvarez leagues will take care of many mentally disturbed patients. As I went through an older wing of the hospital in which Dr. Bennett has been keeping his patients, I found most of them sitting about, resting or reading. Some were playing cards, and some of the more dis turbed ones were lying quitely on their bed. As we went about. Dr. Bennett greeted in a friend ly way all the patients, and most of them responded with friend liness. Some who didn't were just too shy or too reserved to say much or to look at anyone who was passing by. As Dr. Bennett has long been pointing out, it will be a great day for psychiatry when all gen eral hospitals will have a depart ment in which they can take pa tients with mental troubles. They may not be able to take patients who are unmanageable, noisy or dangerous, but they should be taking those many commonly seen types of patient who, for most of the time, are friendly and responsive and sensible. Many of these need hospitaliza tion, largely to keep them from wandering about, or getting in to see that in one division of the money their people can scrape together. In the hospital such a man (or woman) may seem nor mal, but if he goes out, he may get drunk, or he may become confused and frightened. In the hospital, he can be observed and treated every day, and with his doctor near, he may feel safe and protected. Admission Avoids Stigma One big reason for admitting slightly confused patients to a general hospital is that this avoids the terrible stigma of hav ing been in a mental hospital. The patient and his relatives do not have to say what part of the hospital he was in. The new plan also gives psychiatrists a place in which they can treat private patients for a reasonable fee. A month ago, while in Hart ford, Conn., visiting with another friend, Dr. Francis Braceland, who also is one of America's great psychiatrists, I was so in terested in going through "The Institute of Living," the remark able mental hospital over which he presides. There I was pleased to see that in one division of the hospital the doors are not locked. and the patients live much as if they were in a college dormi tory. When I was there most of them were busy working in one or another of the several shops. Some had discovered that they possessed a decided artistic tal ent. Occasionally, a patient goes out to have some fun in a bar, be opened. In i but soon one of the nurses finds it, Dr. Bennett j him, and talks him into going and his col- back to his room. Impressed by Greetings As I went about the Institute with Dr. Braceland I was im pressed by the friendly way in which he greeted all the patients we met, and interesting to me was the happy way in which they greeted him. If I hadn't known that the place was a men tal hospital, I could hardly have figured out what it was every one seemed so perfectly nor mal. This was doubtless because of the happy atmosphere of trust and respect. Hopeful is the present-day plan being adopted by a number of psychiatrists of letting certain patients go out to work during the day but having them return at night to the hospital. Others stay in the hospital during the day, getting treatment, but go home at night to their family. Readers may say, "But these people cannot be very insane." True: but here is the important point, as a fine psychiatrist said to me a while ago. "If you expect to cure a mentally dis turbed man (or woman) get at the job quickly, before the fel low has had a chance to degener ate and become hopelessly con fused or separated from reality. Help him while he will still talk to you sensibly, and while he still can reason logically." Too often today the person who is slightly disturbed is left untreat ed until he is so upset that he has to be locked up. Mike Groman is now em phasizing the great need for treating mental troubles when they show up, as they often do, in children. But in many states there is no mental hospital in which a child can be treated. As Groman says, in many a case if a child's sanity could be saved, so that he would not have to be kept in a state institution for the restof his life enough money would be saved so that a child ren's psychiatric clinic could be built District Atiorney Asks Dealers of Scrap to Use Care District Attorney Thomas Re eder has sent letters to 12 Jack son county scrap metal dealers, urging them to use care in pur chasing scrap brought to their i v.1 : -l t Reeder said in the letter there have been widespread reports j of thefts of machinery parts and other similar items in the area. He said current high prices for scrap metal -and the high rate of unemployment in Jackson coun ty have tended to "encourage wholesale petty thievery". The district attorney urged the dealers to know the source ol the material they are buying and to be sure of the sellers' in tegrity. He reminded the deal ers that failure to exercise cau tion in purchasing scrap metal could result in prosecution for buying and possessing stolen property. Sentenced in Court Meanwhile, Alfred Hack worth, 21, route 2, box 252-A, Medford, was sentenced to 90 days in the county jail Monday after pleading guilty in district court to a charge of petty lar ceny. Hackworth and two teenage Medford boys admitted stealing parts of a pug mill belonging to Lininger's Gravel company, Central Point. They also admit ted stealing batteries belonging to Peter R. Bateman, 3088 Table Rock rd., and miscellaneous hub caps. All of the items were sold sheriff's deputies reported. The two boys who also admit ted theft of the pug mill parts were released and cited to ap pear later before juvenile au thorities. Another 16-year-old boy was reportedly involved in the hub cap thefts. Sheriff's deputies are still in vestigating the recent theft of a mining mill from a mining claim near Glendale. The theft was reported Monday by Russ J. Roster, 1102 West 10th st. Wednesday. March 8. 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN Dr. Alvarez hopes his readers will understand that it would be impossible for him to answer requests for information or to at tempt to diagnose by mail. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1957) Medford Woman Hurt In Auto Accident Alta Bernice Bance, 1725 Ore gon, ave., Medford, suffered back brusies and a mild concus sion Monday when the car she was operating was involved in accident with another car on Third and Fir sts., according to city police. She was taken to Rogue Val ley hospital by Medford Ambu lance service. Hospital attend ants this morning said her con dition was. "satisfactory." Operator of the other car, Jack Francis Cody Jr., 23 South New town St., Medford, suffered a bruised knee but no treatment was necessary, police said. 0 ? ' i "Vsj the now Rocket . . ft's like cvtgines In one I Only Olds brings you all three! 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When I am with one of them, I am so perfectly happy I forget about the other. Mrs. M. T My husband and I feel that all this admiration has gone to Glady's head. We believe she has never loved Joe. and never will. He was the first boy to become seriously interested in her and she was carried away by the excitement of it. Harold is 27, mature and ready to undertake the responsibilities of a family. Joe looks and acts young enough to be his son. We don't want to forrp niarlvo but we feel that the excitement in love with her has gone to her head. She is playing the two of them off against each other and we are afraid that Harold, who is so much mor mature and sensi ble, won't stand for it. We don't think it's unreason able to ask Gladvs in drnn -Top i for a few months. If she wants to go Dack to nim after that, we won't oppose her. The Council If Mr. and Mrs. M. T. can get Gladys to do as they ask, without any great re sistance on her part, they may have the problem solved. 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