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
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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-
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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."
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way to address, the Queen's
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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. Campbell,
brother of James Campbell
and Mrs. Mark Goldy, Med
ford, will head a program to
teach public administration
in three universities in Brazil
and offer graduate courses
for Brazilian professors at
the University of Southern
California, Los Angeles.
Dr. Campbell is a graduate
of USC. He will be accom
panied to Brazil by his wife
and daughter. He later plans
to live in Medford.
A nine - man faculty will
work on the program under
terms of a million - dollar,
three-year contract with' the
International Cooperation ad
ministration of the U.S. de
partment of state.
Sir Christopher Wren was
78 years old when he finished
re-building St. Paul's Cathed
ral in London in the early
1700's. He had himself hauled
to the 365-foot-high dome in
a basket, where he would
dangle for hours.
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Valley resort of Harrison
Hot Springs had stickers
printed for automobile -bumpers.
They read, "Vic- '
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