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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-
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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
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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
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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.
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Gladys T. I'm
in love with
two men!
Mrs. M. T. She should drop
Joe for a while.
Gladys T. I have a problem
that is a problem. I'm in love
with two men!
Two years ago, when I was 18,
I started going out with a won
derful boy. He had his military
service ahead of him, so we de
cided not to make any definite
commitments to one another
until he got out, but we agreed
we loved one another and would
marry if we felt the same when
he came out of the Navy. We
have corresponded regularly.
Several months ago I started
going out with another man
and found him just as wonderful,
in a different way. The fact is
that I fell for him so hard I al
most forgot about Joe.
Then Joe came back and with
in a few weeks, I realized it
was just the same as ever be
tween us. I .have been dating
both Joe and Harold and they
both want to marry me. 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. But if
she resists, it won't do to force
the issue. If they try to force it,
the scales may be weighed in
favor of Joe.
On the other hand, if Gladys
accepts their plan voluntarily, it
will indicate that she recognizes
the whole situation has "gone
to her head" and really wants
them to help her out of her di
lemma. It may be hard for Mr. and
Mrs. M. T. to sit back and twid
dle their thumbs while "Rome''
(Harold) burns, but they may
have to do just that. Gladys will
have to fumble through this gid
dy period in her own way, even
if it means losing a perfectly
eligible husband. Her insistence
that she is in love with two men
may simply mean she is not
ready for marriage and wants
to play the field for some time
to come.
(Copyright 1957, General
Features Corp.)
25 Measles Cases
Reported Last Week
Twenty-five cases of measles
were reported in Medford by the
Jackson county health depart
ment for the week ending Mar.
1, according to Dr. A. Erin Mer
kel, public health physician.
Other cases reported were
scarlet fever, one, Medford;
chicken pox 11, Medford 10 and
Central Point; and strep throaa
one, Medford.
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