New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 16, 1928, Page 12

for any marked decrease it is neces- sary that the home environment and ihome conditions under which chil- Hall Outlines State Program |::.wiioriswma for Caring of Meatally W “ i mou be considered with the problem of mental diseases and for which the | same program of preventing applies, Discusses State Care lis the problem of mental deficiency. O‘ Menhl Detectives 1 “It is quite definitely accepted | now that the problem of the feeble- | minded is largely economic. The idle defective has no money, feels inferior, and does his worst. The Third Hospital for Insme,! Enlargement of Expert Personnel and City Clinics Recommended. scldom gives trouble. The indus- trially trained defective has a better chance to get work than if un- trained. 1Indeed ,f untrained in New London, Nov. 16 —Edward carlier years, he early becomes the . Hall of New Britain, state com- proverbial idle defective, . oner of control and finance, ad ¢ 5 'he extra-institutional super- d the convention of the Con- i vision and observation of cases in ticut League of Women Voters their homes would do away with here last night, outlining a proposed the nccessity of institution care of state policy for the education and many persons who would otherwise care of mentally ill and mentall de- have to go to an institution, thus ficient. reducing the expense of institution Commissioner Hall discussed what buildings. has been done and what is in con- Outlincs State Program templation, concluding his talk by “The problem of mental remarking: | defectivene: have presented this program complex one which to my mind is practicable, medical prol: workable and yet not too expensive educational. for the state. It is free from the “The program which has heen de- over-enthusiastic spirit, which - | veloped in other states and which ates much comment and gives little las been fairly started in our own 19 the way of lasting results. The state, would seem to be the most aim is solely to point out a way of ‘v-l'd'u]\‘al If’olglh:’n o: N;e I'rohlf;vlu beginning an allow future needs to E : and should be developed as rapidly indicate what shail be developed and | EUNWAI N, SALL as possible, Tt combines the efforts ow milch building a new |10V being made by the state and by state Needs Definite Policy losaled ,hm;:n:‘u;mnuy in the following pro- all's address to the women 3 'he | BTAm: ‘,D,“::_., ',‘:,'KLM'“' tostha e i ‘“"":;‘:I:;I‘; “I wish to impress the fact that “One of the most important prob- | have the immediate consileration of | | 90 Mot believe that this program lems Connecticut must solve is the 'the legislature, and should be push-|'® fipighedions dor thiemust he development of a policy for 1he care | od throngh to 4 conclusion. a matter of development from ‘ex- of the mentally sick and a determi- | “While it is interesting 1o delve nation of what provision can be into the phases of mental diseases, made to arrest the ever fnereasing it is a practical necessity that we | numbers now being committed 10 plan for the immediate care of those | the mental hospitals, who, owing 10 so suffering. & lack of proper community under-| Plan of Prevention Desirable standing of the onset, course, and| “Jt is also necessary to outline a treatment of mental diseases, have | plan of pr tion, for it is gener- suffered a mental brekdown. ally believed by psychiatrists that “We all hope that the psycho- approximately one-half of the pa- patic institutions and others nter- ' tients are suffering from mental dis- ested in psychology will find gome orders that could/ have been T\xa.!“"w ReralinGint iat ieca T D solution to at least diminish fhe |\ented, Every effort must be made| trained psychiatric social workers, number of those suffeflring from |1o hring treatment to hear upon the | and preferably a psychologist. This mental sickness, but this study un-|discase in its early stage, through aljatterfi however, might be omitted doubtedly will V' yield any marked | cintinual campaign of education in|at firs The expense necessary for results for sevefal years. The state [trying to promote the best possible | {he salaries of the first threo would therefore should recognize the im-|conditions of childhood for those | pa approximately $12,000 per year, portance of the problem and until | nandicapped by ecither mental de-|anq additional expense would be re- the time arrives when the effect of | foct or nervous instability, which | quired on account of travel and prevention and early treatment.be- |y later lead to nervius and men- | clerical help. ins to bear fruit, we must be pre- | ta] disorders “This department should first pared to care for and treat fhose| “The magnitude of the problem|aim to correlate and unify existing Who have become mentally sick and only by a few. Those | clinics, insofar that the clinic should in need of hispitalization. Toward e committed to the|render a report of their activities this end, we must consider the| hospitals represent only the|to the state department, but the de- means to provide such facilities. 1t 1S more aggravated types of mental| partment should in no way interfere necessary that suitable bed capacity |sickness, and before we can ook | with their management. The de- (Special to the Herald) illness, nd psychopaths is a wit primarily .it is a n, and secondarily. I1e arranged for by lospital, preferably western portion of huilding of this institution lcast gives a start, which, if the ex- perience of other states can be heeded, promises results. “(1) That the Institutional. fa- cilities for the mentally sick be in- | creased by building a third institu- tion for the insant in Fairfield county. “(2) That the mental hygiene division of the state department of health be enlarged by adding a full defective who works at good wages| prerience; nor is it ideal, but it at| NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERATD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1928 partment should be advisory, and should aim to establish further clinics in the state. This can easily be done without interfering in any way with the control or activities of the present institutions although the three hospitals,—Middletown, Nor- wich, and Mansfield,—should be closely linged with this department. “It might be well to consider hav- ing the superintendents of these in- stitutions act in an advisory ca- pacity in order to insure their co- operation and support .and at the same time, avoid any possible though unintentional, tendency to overlapping in their respective flelds of work. The clinica to be operated by the mental hygiene division of the state department of health, for convenience, might be divided into two general types: Establishment of nics (a) Permanent Clinics: n the larger communities a eclinic should be established (preferably in conjunction with the general hos- pital) for nervous and mental dis- orders. This would serve largely for adult cases, but would also serve the local agencies ,as the courts or charity departments ,in giving ad- vice on propblem cases, It should not be for cases on parole from the | various institutions. “To insure success the commun- ity interest must be awakened to the needs of the community and it would be the air in the larger cen- ters to have this clinic taken over as a definite community activity. In the smaller centers, the department should also establish clinies of a similar nature, which it would prob- Wbly have to conduct an indefinite period. The frequency with which these clinics are to be held would depend upon the need of the com- munity and would best be left for the department to decide Would Exxtend Children's Clinics “(b) School. or Children’s Clinics: These are now being operated in the different communities under the supervision of the state board of education, This is the best field of endeavor. The backwardness of these children will be found not only in the Intellectual field, but also due to their emotional reactions, due to conditions in the home, the school, and their general environ- ment. This clinical work should he on & broader scale under the di- vision of mental hygicne of the state department ‘of health, co-operating with the state department of edu- | cation. Tt should alsoe be the aim of the state department to super- vise ‘follow-up’ work in the com- munities. This ‘follow-up’ work should be carried an by local agen- cies, The fact that there is a community interest at the present time is apparent from the number of agencies, religious, civic, or al- | truistic, who are doing excellent | work in caring for these who are ion. Plans should YOU-YOU-YOU! 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