Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Annual Report of the Trustees of the Worcester State Hospital for the Year Ending November 30, 1920: Department of Mental Diseases
We have continued to give much time and thought to the expansion of our library facilities. It will be noted in the librarian's report that not only is this expansion in the form of additional books and periodicals but in better service to the, medical staff. A medical library without a well trained librarian is like a ship without a rudder. It is not everyone who knows how to use a library with out assistance. The service rendered in abstracting and translation work by the trained librarian is an invaluable contribution to the hospital. Research could not be carried on without this important department.
I am more and more impressed by the importance of the State hospital wo'rking with children. Childhood is the golden age for mental hygiene and if any real preventive work will achieve results this is the time when it must be applied. But-i cannot refrain from pointing out a real danger. To make the clinic only a classification mechanism is to defeat its purpose. Treatment must follow in all cases if it is to make a real contribution to mental hygiene. Another danger is the casual way in which such clinics are organized. In the first place skillful and continuous work in the community is needed to get the proper interest in the work. In the second place the personnel cannot have divided duties. Child guidance is a real specialty. To expect a psychiatrist to spend one half his time dealing with the problems Of the adult psychotic and one half considering the problem of the child is asking more than the human mind is capable of.
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