The View-point of the Mentally Subnormal Patient

¹ Consultant Psychiatrist, Dundee Psychiatric Service, Strathmartine Hospital, Dundee, Angus, Scotland

One hundred and seventy-four patients resident in a mental subnormality hospital were interviewed. Seventy-one per cent did not regard themselves as being or having been ill. Only a small proportion of patients were in favour of having fewer patients on their ward's or of a smaller hospital. Seventy-six per cent of the group said they would rather live somewhere else away from the hospital.