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On Mental Illness

Panorama

Season 13Episode 31Aired 1966-05-16
On Mental Illness

On Mental Illness

Every ninth woman in Britain today will spend some time in a mental hospital. So will every fourteenth man. Nearly half our hospital beds are occupied by mental patients. But do we do enough for the mentally sick? Or are we still inclined to put them out of sight and out of mind? As attitudes change, a special report by James Mossman.