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Physical Illness in Psychiatric Hospital Patients in Jamaica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Aggrey W. Burke*
Affiliation:
The Bellvue Hospital, Jamaica; Hill End Hospital, St. Albans, Herts

Extract

The present study describes certain characteristics of an in-patient population of newly-admitted patients at the only psychiatric hospital (approximately 3,000 beds) serving the two million inhabitants of Jamaica.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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