Abstract
This report deals with the results of studies carried out on a consecutive series of patients referred for diagnosis and who presented some form of mental disease as a feature in the final summary of the case. The. Evans Memorial, under ordinary conditions, is not organized to furnish custodial care, and so a primary reference for mental disease was limited to the few individuals to whom adequate nursing supervision did not entail an expense which was prohibitive. The great majority of the patients comprising the group had given evidence of physical abnormalities calling for diagnostic resolution. The mental status either was established during the course of the study or had been previously recognized and the patient referred during its incipiency or in a period of temporary quiescence. The general method of study has been frequently reported (1), and need not be elaborated here. In addition to the usual procedures applied routinely, careful psychiatric studies were made by one of us (H.M.P) of the majori...
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