. The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada . The term is now two and one-half years, with theprivilege, for the women, of entering the training school at theMassachusetts General Hospital, taking an 18 months course ofstudy and receiving a diploma from that hospital as well as fromMcLean. The number of ward maids has been increased in orderthat the nurses might be released from drudgery and allowed moretime for the care of the patients. Ward maids are now employedon all the mens wards. More land has been acquired during the last nine years. In1907 one acre with hous
. The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada . The term is now two and one-half years, with theprivilege, for the women, of entering the training school at theMassachusetts General Hospital, taking an 18 months course ofstudy and receiving a diploma from that hospital as well as fromMcLean. The number of ward maids has been increased in orderthat the nurses might be released from drudgery and allowed moretime for the care of the patients. Ward maids are now employedon all the mens wards. More land has been acquired during the last nine years. In1907 one acre with house and barn was bought; in 1908 71,800square feet of land on Mill Street was purchased, also the BrownFarm of a little more than 56 acres, containing a spring whichsupplies all the water for the hospital. In 1909 a lot of landcontaining seven and one-half acres and a house on Mill Streetwas bought to provide a third residence for married physicians. McLean Hospital, at the beginning of the year 1913, occupiesan estate of 317 acres on the southwestern extremity of the. McLean hospital 615 Arlington Heights range of hills overlooking the Charles RiverValley. It accommodates 220 patients in eleven houses. Patients are received according to the laws of Massachusetts,voluntarily or by commitment. The hospital is not large enoughfor reception wards, nor are they needed, for no one is admittedexcept by previous arrangement and after sufficient informationhas been obtained to make it reasonably certain that there is roomin the house where the patient would properly belong. Withopportunity for making many classes of men and women in housesquite widely separated, there is little difficulty in making a properassignment of rooms at the time of admission. Each patient isgiven special nursing care during the first few hours, to lessenthe shock of admission to a hospital for mental diseases and toobtain further information for the attending physician. The hospital is administered by the Massac
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