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S13E31: On Mental Illness

Panorama · 1965/1966
Aired 16 May 1966 at 7:30pm (UTC)

Synopsis

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.

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