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Adequate Treatment Needed to Speed Recovery in Mental Cases Br LOUIS CASSELS UPI Correspondent Washington-iUPD-This year, about 220,000 anguished hu man beings who are unable to continue functioning as nor mal members of society will be admitted to public mental hospitals in the United States. What hope does modern sci ence hold out for their re covery? What are their chances of returning to their homes, families and jobs? The answers are found in a mass of statistics compiled recently by the National In stitute of Mental Health. And they are not the cheerful ans swers that Americans are con ditioned to expect in medical reports. The Institute's figures show that a patient who enters a mental hbspital today has a 50-50 chance of getting out within a year. Chances Drop Sharply But if a patient does not rpond to the intensive treat ment he is given during the first few months of his hos pitalization, he must be shift gt to the "chronic wards" to dft&ke room for new admis sions. And once he is in the fhronic wards, his chances of returning to normal life drop sharply.3 Patients who do not get well th first year have only one chance in five of ever leaving th) hospital. If a person re mains five years in the chronic wards, the odds are 100 to 1 against his ever leaving the hospital alive. The most tragic aspect of tftis situation, according to Dr. Robert H. Felix, director of the National Institute of Ment al Health, is that it need not be. "The condition of the long term patients is by no means as hopeless at the statistics suggest," he says. "A great many of them could be re stored to normal, productive lives if adequate treatment were available." The possibilities of salvag ing some of the human wreck age from the back wards of mental hospitals were dra matically proved in a recent study at a Maryland state hos pital. Seventy-two men who had been in the hospital for five to ten years were taken out of the wards, placed in a convalescent cottage, and sjiven intensive psychiatric therapy. Fifty-five of them re sponded to the treatment by recovering sufficiently to just ify their release. A similar experiment in California- yielded equally heartening results.- Why don't all mental hos pitals give intensive treatment 3) the forgotten men and Qomen in the chronic wards? Che answer stands out stark Onf simple in the Institute's report: Mental hospitals don't have enough money or person nel. The average expenditure for care and treatment of pa tients in public mental hos pitals is currently $4.07 per patient per day. That1 com pares with an average cost of $26.00 per patient per patient per day in general hospitals. Lack of funds is reflected in, and compunded by, a short age of trained personnel. The American Psychiatric Associa tion's "minimum" standards for mental hopsitals call for 1 physician for every 98 pa tients, and 1 registered nurse for every 15. patients. The ac tual ratio in public mental hospitals at present is 1 pys ician for every 184 patients, 1 nurse for every 77 patients. Medford Tribune 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1959 Pages 1-8 Kilpack Speaks At Club Meeting Bennett B. Kilpack, assis tant superintendent of Bar O ranch for boys, Del Norte county, Calif., spoke Thurs day night for the Medford 20-30 club." Discussing "Juveniles Fight for Status," Kilpack said that much time is spent in re search concerning comic books, television and other possible causes of juvenile de linquency, but not enough consideration, is given to the juveniles' fight for status in life. Kilpack is a former senior deputy probation officer for San Mateo county, a former teacher in San Mateo county juvenile hall, former group supervisor at Edgewood or phanage in San Francisco, and supervisor at Hill Mili tary academy, Portland. This past year, he conducted a class in group dynamics at Ashland High school. Kilpack explained that one of the problems of the cor rectional institution is to al low the child the chance for positive status. "Most of the boys we have in care have never had the experience of camping, fish ing and trapping," he said, and "throagh these exper iences they have new hori zons. It is a most gratifying experience to hear the boys talking to not only the coun selors, but among themselves, about plans for the future, i.e. college with future careers." Courlty Officials Attending Course County Commissioner Ches ter Wendt and Assessor Ray J. Schumacher are in Salem at tending a tax school regard ing new state tax laws. " " . Officials from counties throughout the state are at tending the school. Two-thirds o f America's farm families belong to one or more cooperatives. Bock Stairs: Ike's Trip to Canada By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI While House Reporter Washington (UPD Back stairs at the White House: The trip of the President and Mrs. Eisenhower to Can ada today to meet Queen Elizabeth II at the Saint Law rence Seaway really is only a matter of a few hours. Yet, largely because of the fierce Canadian pride in the Queen, the seven-hour visit of the President has taken literally weeks of planning and seem ingly tons of paper work. Normally a trip by the President to any point out side Washington seems rela tively complicated in the planning stages, but nothing to compare with the pin-point planning when her majesty is involved. A Duke or Prince During a special Washing ton press briefing at the Ca- Jl .... . ?f: i3L M TV REPORT Secy, of State Christian A. Herter, in a televised, r e p o r t on the deadlocked Genera confer ence, told the American people that "no agreement is possible" if the Soviets persist in trying to make West Berlin "a slave city." 17 o o 0 C W checked All imported cm before m picked DATSUN a i i i J E)ATiL:; $1798 J Atrtos are our business oor only business. We watched the growing prefer ence for imported cars here in the West Tbea we checked a makes-carefuBy. We wanted a tree economy car. One that was well engineered, carefully built, and backed by a strong, long established manufacturer. And priced right. Datsua scored 100 on all these vital points. We invite you and your family to " test drive the new DatsuiL See us today 'Delivered in Medford PRICE INCLUDES: 4-speed synchronies)! gears BeautrM high luster, a wea&er taper finish Oi fitter Oi bath air deaner Ml sash instraaieati Ami rests SEE IT NOW DARRELL MILLER CO. 415 S. Riverside Medford nadian embassy earlier this week, a good 10 minutes was devoted solely to the proper way to address, the Queen's husband. Various experts ex plained repeatedly that it Oregon Birthday Cake Being Cut Portland Approximately 30,000 to 40,000 slices of Oregon's Centennial birthday cake, reported to be the larg est single confection ever baked, will be offered to Centennial Exposition - goers in Wilcox hall after official ceremonies at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Serving will con tinue through 10 p.m. Sun day, June 28. Guest of honor at the of ficial cake cutting ceremonies Friday sponsored by the United Nations Assembly of Oregon, as a feature of United Nations Charter Day, will be assistant secretary of state for international organi zation affairs, Francis O. Wil cox. Measurements of Oregon's huge birthday cake are: length, 40 feet; width, 4 feet; depth, 1 foot; and height, from the base to a replica of Oregon's Mt. Hood, 7 feet. The cake and candy-cover ed wagons weighs 5 tons. Coordinator of production for the cake and designer of gowns worn by the Oregon Birthday hostesses who will serve the cake is Mardi Jacob of Portland. The project, re quired VA years of planning. All ingredients, flowers, gowns and time were do nated. would be perfectly fine to call Philip either a Duke or a Prince. He's both. He also may be addressed directly as "Your Royal Highness." This sparkling conversa tion might still be going had not a rather unromantic . fel low in the background growl ed, "What different does it make - none of us will ever be near enough to speak to him." Time at Farm Mrs. Eisenhower has been telling neighbors in Gettys burg that she and the Presi dent expect to be spending a lot of time at their farm on week ends through the summer. This doesn't sound much like a big vacation in Newport, R.I. Also, it reflects the fact that if congress runs into September, it may be too chilly for the President to think about a New Eng land holiday by the time he's able to leave town. Costume Bracelet On a recent Saturday in Gettysburg, the First Lady drove to nearby Bigerville, Pa., to shop at the picturesque Thomas Bros. General store. Mrs. Eisenhower picked out an attractive and relatively inexpensive costume bracelet as her principal purchase during a whirlwind shopping tour. About an hour later, a big strapping secret service agent walked into the store, ginger ly bearing the bracelet. It seemed that Mrs. Eisenhower got home and couldn't figure out how to open the catch on the piece of jewelry. One of the ladies in the store patiently explained the process to the agent who tried it a couple of times himself, then departed. To Arthur S. Flemming, Secretary of Health, Educa tion and Welfare, the figures in the Institute's report are "shocking." "It is obvious," says Flem ming, "that we have not yet mounted an effective attack on mental illness in this coun try. We are beginning to make real progress in the area of research. But in the area of hospital care and treatment, the resources we are "devoting to mental illness are disgrace fully inadequate." Quite aside from the person al tragedies and the enormous waste of human resources in volved, Flemming points out, it is a "false economy" that keeps public mental hospitals on such lean budgets that they can offer little more than cus todial facilities for long-term patients. To maintain a patient in a hospital all his adult life, even with minimum care, is ex tremely costly -to the public treasury. For a patient with a life expectancy of 30 years, the total cost is nearly $50,000. A fraction of that sum invest ed in intensive treatment might enable that patient to become a productive member of society. Dr. Campbell Named To Head Program Dr. Earl C. 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