This classic book allows its readers for the first time to
comprehend the size, organization, staffing and operation of a
national system of hospitals and residential services for the
subnormal. It also allows for the first time, reliable estimates to
be given of the scale and severity of certain problems. The basis
has been laid for an evaluation of the effectiveness of hospitals
for the subnormal. All this has been made possible by a generous
grant from the National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children
to the Department of Sociology in the University of Essex upon the
foundation of the University. Of course, a great deal of further
research remains to be done but a preliminary network of
information is now available to all those deeply concerned about
the handicapped.
This is a study of the range and quality of institutional
provisions made in England and Wales for that group of handicapped
individuals who are known as mentally deficient. Dr. Morris reports
on an investigation, which covered nearly half the hospitals for
the sub-normal in the country: many of its findings can only shock
and dismay.
The investigation was concerned to discover what
facilities-physical, occupational and educational-there was for
patients, and to learn more about their social environment. It was
also concerned to determine the extent to which both staff and
patients are affected by their social environment, and by
administrative action, and to learn something of the relationship
between the hospital as an institution and the outside community,
as well as between the patients and the outside world. In addition,
it examined the extent to which the provisions and facilities
available met the needs of the patients in relation to their
physical and mental handicaps.
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