What Overloading Hospitals Means

Published In
Ann Arbor News, February 17, 1937
Caption
What Overloading Hospitals Means: The picture shows the "day space" in a "disturbed" or violent ward in a state hospital. These patients because of their liability to "disturbed" spells have to be confined and watched more closely than more "comfortable" patients, even though between attacks they may appear normal or near-normal. In good mental hospital practice such patients should have pleasant sitting rooms or attractive recreation rooms in which to spend their waking hours. In the typical case pictured patients, because of the hospital overload, have no recreation room and are forced to sit hour after hour and day after day in a crowded corridor. Pictures, rugs, and curtained windows show the efforts that have been made by the hospital authorities to add brightness and cheerfulness to a drab hall-way.