Abstract
1. Comparative statistics on the accomplishments of thirteen mental hospitals and three state schools for mental defectives are prepared each month by the Division of Statistics of the Massachusetts State Department of Mental Health. Sets of tables are made available to the Commissioner and the superintendents of the various state hospitals and schools. 2. Four factors in movement of patient population are analyzed each month: (1) Patients discharged to the community, (2) Patients dying in hospital, (3) Patients placed on visit, and (4) Patients leaving hospital on escape. For example, in the discharges (Table 1), the number of patients severing connection with the hospital during the month is compared with the number of cases under care during the same month. A discharge rate for the hospital is calculated which may be compared with the discharge rates of the other hospitals shown on the same table. Similar tables are made up which present the monthly death rates, visit rates and escape rates for all hos...
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