Medicine: Capsules, Sep. 26, 1955
¶ No fewer than 10,000 of the 60,000 patients in Veterans Administration neuropsychiatric hospitals could be discharged if their families or community groups would only accept them back home, said the National Association for Mental Health. If the same ratio holds in state hospitals, 100,000 patients are being kept long after recovery.
¶ Though U.S. Public Health officials noted another minute drop in the weekly total of reported polio cases, indicating that 1955's worst is past, they were alarmed by increases in diphtheria: 237 cases in six weeks (more than half in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina).
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