. Annual report of the Commissioner of Mental Diseases for the year . sary to cometo clinic. The previous year October and March were also the busiest months forthe clinic. Last year, however, February and July showed the lowest intake, whilethis year January and July were the lowest. The weather was probably responsiblefor this change. Records show that in February, 1934, seven Clinics had to be 52 117 cancalled because of blizzards, while the weather in January was apparently notunusual. In 1935 the reverse situation occurred. That is, the blizzards in Januarycaused the cancell
. Annual report of the Commissioner of Mental Diseases for the year . sary to cometo clinic. The previous year October and March were also the busiest months forthe clinic. Last year, however, February and July showed the lowest intake, whilethis year January and July were the lowest. The weather was probably responsiblefor this change. Records show that in February, 1934, seven Clinics had to be 52 117 cancalled because of blizzards, while the weather in January was apparently notunusual. In 1935 the reverse situation occurred. That is, the blizzards in Januarycaused the cancellation of five clinics while there was no interference with atten-dance because of the weather in February. The percentage of new cases acceptedeach month is also shown in Graph 1. Table No. 2. Habit Clinics — New Cases Accepted each MonthDecember 1, 1934 to November 30, 1935 Per December January February Marcn April . May Num-ber56 445578 cent9 10 June July September ....October ....November ....Total for year ... 643 Num- Per ber cent 49 8 42 6 53 8 S3 13 69 11 643 100. DEC. dAN. FEB. MAR. APR. MAY JUNE JULY Graph I. Percentage of New Cases Accepted Each MonthDecember 1, 1934 to November 30, 1935 Table No. 3 shows the number of new cases accepted in each clinic centre duringthe year. The dilerence in the number of cases referred to the clinic in somecentres and those referred in others is very marked. This is chiefly indicative of thefact that in certain centres institutions such as hospitals and schools know aboutthe work of the habit clinics and consider the clinics as a community resource. Somecommunities are much more awake to this opportunity than others. Anotherconsideration that influences the intake is the size of the city or town where theclinic is held. The Quincy Clinic is larger than any one of the Boston Habit Clinics,but less than one-half of the intake of the three Boston Clinics combined whichamounted to 277. The Boston Clinics are those which are situated in
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