title: Long stay patients in a state mental hospital.
abstract: A study of the long stay patients in a state mental hospital on 30th June 1980 revealed that 70 per cent of the total 1,434, i.e. 1015 had spent more than two years continuously; most of them are chronic schizophrenics, admitted by the police, lacking social support. The need for rehabilitating them both within and outside the hospital is stressed.
authors.affiliation: Professor of Psychiatry, Institute of Mental Health, Madras-10.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Somasundaram
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jayachandran
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kumar